After a long and complex negotiation, the ANICAV and the POs of the Central-Southern Italy Basin have signed a Agreement for the management of the next tomato processing campaign.
The parties confirmed the system of the Area Framework Agreement approved in 2022 and also applied in the 2023 campaign, with the only variation of the parameters relating to minor defects of the raw material in order to ensure the industries a higher quality of the tomatoes to be processed.
Without prejudice to the contractual autonomy of individual companies when signing supply contracts, the parties, on the basis of a series of criteria, have defined an average reference price equal to 150€/ton for round tomato e 160€/ton for long tomatoes and an increase of €30/ton for organic.
“The sense of responsibility prevailed – he declares Marco Serafini President of ANICAV – Despite the better conditions of production costs compared to past campaigns that in other processing countries have seen reductions in the prices of raw materials, we wanted to recognize, with great sacrifice, to the agricultural part an average reference price that remains the highest in the world and that will have to guarantee our companies an improvement in the already high quality standards, which have always characterized our production, and the utmost attention during the harvesting phase, something on which we will be uncompromising during the campaign”.
