date:Oct 23, 2012
sounded an alarm on Saturday about the state of the agricultural sector in Italy, saying around 60,000 dairy farms have closed in Italy over the past 20 years and production costs have risen 40 percent between 2011 and 2012.
A further reason for concern comes from the government's imminent clampdown on over 700 million euros of fines farmers must pay for exceeding quotas over the years.
While the government is about to send tax collectors to the farms, many producers say they do not have the m