Next month , from February 22 to 24 , Myplant & Garden will take place again in Milan , Italy . It is one of the most of import external carnival in Italy , and the organization latterly published the latest prescribed data on horticulture in Italy for 2021 .
Tuscany , Liguria , Sicily , Lombardy , Lazio , Puglia , Emilia - Romagna , Veneto , and Piedmont lead the ranking of Italian regions with the mellow production value in home horticulture , which in 2021 has grown by 5 % from the previous twelvemonth . The economic value , which represent to 2.8 billion euros ( 4.6 % of understructure price production in Italian agriculture ) , is the highest one recorded in late year .
Production of flowers and potted plants in 2021 has pass on almost 1.3 billion euro ( +5.1 % from 2020 ) , stemming in part ( 39 % ) from the regions in the North - West of Italy and in part ( 35 % ) from the South and island .
The production of nurseries , or else , which reached 1.5 billion euro ( +4.9 % ) , came mainly from central Italy .
Italian production takes place in the main in four regions : Liguria , which is the loss leader in outside flower production ; Tuscany and Lombardy , where the main activities as far as nurseries that produce ornamental plants are concerned to take property ; Campania , where companies are specialise mainly in the protected finish of flower .
Tuscany leads nursery production on a national floor , with a upset of 816 million euros ( +4 % average between 2019 and 2020 ) .
Flower production , instead , is led by Liguria with 386 million euros ( +4.6 % over the previous two twelvemonth ) .
Production of flowers and potted plants did not register any substantial modification .
As previously remarked , Tuscany and Liguria pass the overall ranking of Italian bloom and greenhouse production :
Italy confirms its role as a net exporter of horticulture products : the product value of exportation in 2021 has reached 1,143 million euro ( 903 in 2020 ) . The trade Libra stand at 550 million euros ( 423 in 2020 ) . The European Union is the main export name and address for Italian product ( about 80 % of all exports ) .
According to Eurostat , the entire economic value of European product in 2021 , let in flower lightbulb and glasshouse plants , has been 20 billion euro , of which almost 7 billion come up from The Netherlands .
70 % of Italian export goes to France , The Netherlands , Germany , the United Kingdom , and Switzerland . The Netherlands ( 75 % ) , Germany , Spain , and Belgium , or else , are the master import countries forItaly .
“ This is a fact that we had set ahead in January last year – observe the leaders - when we noticed that Italian exports of horticulture product had been growing since the first trimester . Moreover , many companies in the industriousness had positive feelings about a restart . However , we had also remarked how the regrowth was somehow occlude by the increase in production cost because of the billow incost of energy , raw materials for merchant marine , transport , and plant food . ”
Troubles and opportunities for forty - thousand hectares of excellenceFrom the beginning of 2022 , after overcoming the hard crisis do by the pandemic , Italian production has been subjected to pressure again . As already remarked by Myplant , pomposity , theprice of energy and political doubt on an international level are hitting company hard , obstructing production , causing prices to increase , impeding the programming of production , andhalting international exchanges .
According to Coldiretti , the first semester in 2022 export has registered an step-up of 9 % from the first semester in 2021 , but import has grown to 60 % , potentially compromising the trade balancefor the end of the year .
Moreover , according to Assofloro , the surge in vigour price is unprecedented : almost +100 % Summer 2022 / summertime 2021 for electrical energy ; +80 % Spring 2022 over Spring 2021 for fuel ; +1,200%July 2022 over 2021 for methane .
“ All thing considered , the exhibit halls will be packed thanks to the trustfulness and travail of companies that trust in our trade fair as the place to suffer , have raw business opportunity , and think about the future . We want to think about the future together . Horticulture is an industry that kick in to undertake clime and environmental issues by benefiting the economy , mass ’s wellness , and improving the place we populate .
We keep find a growing interest and sensibility towards nature : from politics to architecture , from the valorization of outdoor country to urban regeneration , with clime change as a red thread . We should n’t forget the godsend of green dwell in the domestic sphere , micro - cultivations , and the great unwashed ’s consciousness of the connexion that plants have with our well - being . These are all aspect to which thehorticulture diligence contributes . ”
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