Janusz Wojciechowski
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September 16, 2021
"I am here to congratulate Tuscany and Florence for hosting this G20 meeting and I believe there was no better place for a meeting like this. And I would also like to thank Italian farmers for ensuring food security in a time of acute crisis. , a crisis that has hit Europe from a health and economic point of view, nevertheless during this difficult moment both farmers and the agri-food processing industry have not stopped as well as the supply of foodstuffs for Europe". Thus Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture, in Florence for the G20 of Agriculture after a meeting with the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani. "I think this demonstrates the strength and stability of theagricultural apparatus - he added - but there were also signs that we wanted to capture and indications to improve the resistance of this sector, and to improve the degree of sustainability of agriculture and this is in fact one of the main objectives, if not the very basis of the common agricultural policy that we are launching at the moment ".
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draw a lesson from it "For me it is important to draw a lesson from the characteristics of Italian agriculture because it is a success story, it is a sector that is good, because it is based on a structure of small and medium-sized enterprises, or family-run businesses that in fact they have an extension lower than the European average, the Italian one is 11 hectares, the European one is 16 hectares. But in fact the productivity index of companies is very high "concluded the European Commissioner