Trend of the agricultural economy

Agriculture: -0.7% production and -1.6% value added. Agri-food sector growing

In 2019, there was a significant slowdown in the production of wine (-12.1%); fruit (-6.6%), industrial crops (-3.2%) and cereals (-1.5%) also fell. Significant recovery for olive oil (+27.6%); legumes production also increased (+8.7%) as well as forage crops (+3.4%).

The impact of agriculture on the Italian economy was 2.2%, if we include the food industry it raised to 4.1%. Employment was essentially stable (+0.1%). Production (+0.5%) and agricultural income (+3.0%) were growing in the Eu28, but Italy was confirmed as the first country for value added and the third for the production value.

For information

Alessandra Agostinelli
agostine@istat.it

Paolo Panfili
Ph. +39 06 4673 3138
panfili@istat.it