“In my farm I have five meters, I have never paid a bill higher than 600 euros, just yesterday I received the last one: 1,100 euros, almost double. So it becomes difficult to go on. "The testimony comes from Simone Podda 41 year old farmer owner of a fruit and vegetable company in Villaspeciosa and area manager of Coldiretti , one of the many participants in the meeting organized by the trade association this morning at the Cagliari Fair .
"The cost of energy accounted for about 12% of the company budget, now we have reached 20 and in some cases even 25% ", he explains.
Podda grows vegetables in about 15 hectares, in addition to another thirty of various arable land, and the expensive energy is added to a series of heavy increases such as those of fuel, fertilizers, pesticides and all raw materials.
"With a turnover of about two hundred thousand euros a year - he says - if a quarter goes into electricity , it is a risk for the survival of the company", which employs four employees.
Podda, studies in electronic engineering, a past at Saras and owner of the family business for five years, thinks of photovoltaics: "I would like to start the transformation - he says - and install this technology in the company but important investments are needed , such as replacement of all the irrigation systems that must be adapted to a day cycle to exploit the energy of the sun ". Investments that cost and on which there are no certainties and above all rapid times.
"I want to do, to go ahead and build, but - he confesses - these costs are becoming unbearable".
(Unioneonline / EC)
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