Protect the prosciutto: Swine fever threatens Italy’s €20b pork industry, farmers demand stronger action

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Italy Economy,Swine Fever,Prosciutto

ROME, Sept 22 — Pig farmer Alberto Cavagnini has slaughtered 1,600 of his hogs due to swine fever, a virus threatening the €20-billion (RM93 billion) pork industry in Italy,...

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Brussels recommended adopting a single strategy for the whole of northern Italy and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government appointed a special commissioner to lay down the rules. Those working in the Italian pork sector, which generates an annual turnover of €20 billion and employs 100,000 people, are “very worried”, Ettore Prandini, head of Italy’s biggest agricultural association Coldiretti, told AFP.

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