Food is soaring, with a +14.4% increase in turnover, more than double the industry average, compared to the same time last year. This is according to Coldiretti, who cites ISTAT statistics on industrial turnover in the first quarter of 2023, which shows a 6.4% growth in trend terms. To push the food are both domestic consumption driven by catering and exports that in the first quarter of the year scored with an increase of 13.4%, a new record after the historical high of 60.7 billion euros recorded last year thanks to the symbolic products of the Mediterranean Diet such as wine, pasta, and fresh fruit and vegetables that rise to the top of the podium of the most popular Italian specialties sold abroad. This is a result that reaffirms the dominance of Made in Italy agri-food, which generated a value of 580 billion euros in the enlarged supply chain last year and has become Italy's first wealth despite the challenges associated with the pandemic and crisis caused by the conflict in Ukraine. A heritage worth nearly a quarter of the national GDP that employs 4 million people in 740 thousand farms, 70 thousand food industries, over 330 thousand catering realities, 230 thousand retail points, and 10 thousand farmers in direct sales with Campagna Amica.
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