Inflation also gallops in Sardinia in September according to the first estimates released by Istat, with a jump of 8.9% and the shopping cart at + 11.1% in the country.
An increase that had never been seen in 40 years.
On the island, the average weekly expenditure for a family of 4, considering only food, is around 80 euros on average . If the price of bread remains stable, or almost stable, the prices of milk, eggs and meat, fruit and vegetables go up slightly.
On the other hand, the expenditure for drugs is worrying, around 660 euros per year on average for non-serious diseases (source Egualia) for the almost 190 thousand Sardinian pensioners who receive monthly amounts of just over 1,100 euros.
Families are in difficulty in coping with school expenses , which also record a conspicuous increase in textbooks and stationery material (on average € 300 per student child ), to which are added those related to mortgages and sudden expenses . A car breakdown, a boiler malfunction, a sudden healthcare expense, are almost unsustainable costs.
Greater increases compared to the rest of the country are felt in Sardinia due to transport, especially for imported food.
"We need a strong and immediate action against the high prices starting with the energy price", argues the president of Coldiretti Sardegna Battista Cualbu , resuming the appeal, re-launched during the Coldiretti Village underway in Milan, of the national president of the organization Ettore Prandini.
"The increase in raw materials is putting the agri-food chain in serious difficulty, from the producer to the consumer, creating a short circuit. Production costs are rising by requiring prices to be revised without in any case covering costs. But at the same time they affect the product portfolio. consumer forced to cut the products to bring to the table often to the detriment of quality and therefore of health ", concludes Cualbu.
(Unioneonline / EC)