Francesco Mati , chairwoman of the Ornamental Plant Nursery District of Pistoia , launches an appeal to the Italian Government and local presidential term : " There is no more fourth dimension , nurseries have consort out of resources and will before long have to place off employees " . In the last 2 months , due to the Coronavirus hand brake , the commercial activity of nurseryman have been stall : they are at 10/20 percent of last year ’s overturn . " Bureaucracy and bank are slow in giving financial aid and we are close to have got a Fats Domino effect in this territory , which represents the excellence of Made in Italy .
" clip is up . If there is no rapid financial support interposition , companies will set out to lie off employee and close their doors . And we will be able to say bye to one of the top example of Tuscan Department of Agriculture and of the total Italian flower and live works industry " .
Launching this rallying cry of warning signal and ask for help from national and local institutions is Francesco Mati , president of the Ornamental Plant Nursery District of Pistoia ( Distretto rurale vivaistico ornamentale di Pistoia ): the main centre of live flora producers in Italy . This territorial dominion , according to provincial data of the Chamber of Commerce in 2019 , has 1,450 companionship with 6,000 hectares of work areas and around 6,000 employees , and last year was deserving 733 million euros in turnover , of which around 500 million was from export . The latter " had been in a positive trend since 2017 " , underscore Mati , " and last twelvemonth it had grown in economic value by more than 7 % " .
With the tsunami of the Sars - cov-2 epidemic and the consequent body politic of pinch in Italy and abroad , everything transfer . " In the last 2 calendar month " , explain Francesco Mati , " the commercial activity of nursery companies have practically stop : in some suit resulting in only 10 % respect to last yr , in others 20 % or 30 % , but some companies went down to zero . This substantial commercial block in the crucial menstruation of the year concerns small , intermediate and large ship’s company , it is generalized " . In plus to the miss income , there is the problem of bureaucracy and the banks that slow down the comer of fiscal aid , even those tending that the political science has promised would be quick . For these reason , the nurserymen are in a situation of serious liquidity crisis .
" There really is no more time " , conclude the president Mati , " our company have run out of resources . We desperately need fiscal help from key and local political science level . Otherwise , a Fats Domino upshot will be trigger in the district which will direct to the destruction of an important excellency of Tuscan agriculture and of the Made in Italy " .
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