Agci Agrital (Associazione generale cooperative italiane settore agro ittico alimentare) is very satisfied that the majority of the problems of the milk producers are resolved. It is a results that confirms what the association has been saying for years, years in which the whole national milk sector has suffered big damages.

“Today we are very satisfied of the result obtained by minister Zaia in Brussels, and we hope that the raise obtained is attributed to the producers with criteria aimed at excluding any form of speculation and inequalities”, declared Antonio Martini, of Agci Agrital, “but it must be considered that the Italian zootechny is now in an irreversible crisis that has had in the milk quotas the first cause of the drama lived by the breeders. We hope therefore that, after 25 years of fights between State, Associations and breeders, when finally everybody agrees with the later, this result is not interpreted only as a solution to make [them] pay fines for the next 30 or 40 years. This is how long it would take to heal the sector’s wound, a wound that involves two generations of breeders, and to which many stables have not survived. We are satisfied, but we ask even more courage, to continue the same road requesting the state of crisis of the sector to repair the errors made, and not to close such a dramatic chapter by simply sending the breeders - those whom today everybody says they were right - to work to pay the mistakes of others. If this were the conclusion” Martini closed “we will say to the breeders to go home and to close the stables”.