Anicav “Relaunching The Italian Supply Chain”

A positive meeting of the tomato supply chain round table was held in Naples on November 11. 2025 in Rome at MASAF (Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests), at the request of OI Pomodoro da Industria Bacino Centro Sud, in the presence of Undersecretary Patrizio La Pietra and all representatives of the supply chain to discuss intervention strategies to support the sector.

ANICAV, represented at the meeting by its President Marco Serafini and Director General Giovanni De Angelis, emphasized a number of key issues: supply chain governance and the importance of interprofessional dialogue, the water emergency, and the decline in agricultural yields linked to EU restrictions on the use of active molecules in agriculture in the absence of valid alternatives.

In light of the critical issues that characterized the recently concluded tomato processing campaign, particularly in the Central-Southern Basin, emphasis was placed on the difficulty of dialogue between the agricultural and industrial sectors and on the need for greater vigilance in ensuring compliance with rules and contracts by the Ministry, which was asked to create an institutional framework within which to operate in order to establish clear and binding rules. 

The Ministry has provided important reassurances regarding the request, repeatedly urged by ANICAV, for the creation of an infrastructure linking the Occhito dam in the province of Foggia and the Liscione dam in the province of Campobasso, which is essential for the survival of tomato cultivation in the Foggia area. To this end, Undersecretary La Pietra will visit the Capitanata Land Reclamation Consortium in the coming days.

“We are very pleased that the meeting has been convened,” said Marco Serafini, President of ANICAV. “An important dialogue has been initiated on supply chain governance, which, especially in the central-southern basin, represents a serious problem due to the difficulty of dialogue between the parties and the need to relaunch the interprofessional association to rebalance the relationship between the agricultural and industrial sectors. We have also received assurances from the Ministry of Health regarding restrictions on the use of agrochemicals and fertilizers to curb the decline in our farmers’ yields compared to those of our competitors.”

“We would like to thank Undersecretary La Pietra,” said Giovanni de Angelis, Director General of ANICAV, “for the great attention he has shown to the tomato processing industry, one of the most important Italian agro-industrial sectors in terms of both quantity produced and turnover, which is a driving force for the economy of the Campania region, where the largest number of canning companies are located.”