The CEO & Founder of Bernam & Partners, as well as member of the board of directors of Assobio, Maurizio Bernaroli, was interviewed by Mariangela Latella of Green Planet. The topic of the interview was the current situation of the organic spelt market in the country.

In this regard, there is a total standstill of the market, in addition to shortages of organic cereals up to 30% of the needs of the milling industry.

The crisis stems from the lack of an organic database that generates transparency on the volumes present on the market.

A completely European anomaly, which influences market prices.

In fact, there are about 10 thousand tons of spelt, Spelta variety, currently in stock in various European countries whose possibility of release influences market prices.

Of all the varieties, it is the most used, the easiest to grow, and as soon as farmers had a sign of market interest, they began to grow large quantities.

According to the president of B&P, the risk now is that all this spelt will be used for biomass.

Keeping it stored implies costs and there is no possibility of disposing of it as before.

To regulate the market, databases would be needed to make the flows of goods transparent. Not that they are lacking, however they are not integrated with each other and are not even updated in real time.

The interview also discussed the cereal market in general and the causes of the clear reversal of the trend that characterizes today's economic panorama.

If before, in fact, Italy was the largest exporter of organic and non-organic cereals, today it finds itself having to deal with France, which has become one of the largest competitors on the European market.

Below is the link to access the full interview.

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The organic spelt market in Italy is in crisis – GREEN PLANET