Monday,
September 24
Bread Consumption Hits Record Low in
The
ANNOTICO Report
Changing
Life Styles (Fitter v Fatter) and Rising Prices
for Bread ( Profiteering or Bio Fuel ?)..... reduce
Demand.
Interesting
statistics:
(1)
Retail prices, have soared 419% in the past 20 years.
(2)
Amount a farmer is paid for his wheat accounts for less than 10% of the price
of the final baked product.
(3)
Price of bread differs from city to city, costing as much as 3.35 euros a kilo
in
Thanks
to Pat Gabriel
ANSA - Rome
September 24, 2007
Once a staple on
Italian tables, bread is now disappearing due to changing life styles and
rising prices, the Coldiretti farmers' union said on
Monday.
"Bread
consumption in the first seven months of the year fell 5.6% from the same
period in 2006 and bread sales have tumbled by one third since 2000," Coldiretti said.
"Annual
bread consumption in the home is now at an historic low and has for the first
time fallen below one million tonnes," to
989,000 tonnes.
According to Coldiretti, the decline in bread consumption "is
certainly linked to changing life styles but it has also coincided with a
steady rise in retail prices, which have soared 419% in the past 20
years".
The farmers'
union also pointed that the amount a farmer is paid for his wheat accounts for
less than 10% of the price of the final baked product.
The price of
bread differs from city to city, costing as much as 3.35 euros a kilo in
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