Without the contribution of migrants in the fields and stables, Italy would lose almost a third of Made in Italy at the table, with 362,000 workers from all over the world regularly employed in agriculture providing as much as 32 percent of the total number of work days needed by the sector in 2022. This is according to an analysis by Coldiretti, which collaborated on the Statistical Dossier on Immigration by the Idos Study and Research Center, on the occasion of Migrant Day. The most present community of agricultural workers in Italy - Coldiretti explains - is Romanian with 78,214 employed, ahead of Indians with 39,021, Moroccans with 38,051 who precede Albanians (35,474), Senegalese (16,229), Pakistanis (15,095), Tunisians (14,071), Nigerians (11,894,) Macedonians (9,362), Bulgarians (7,912) and Polish people (7,449). It is mainly seasonal work with peaks of demand in the summer harvest periods that are guaranteed thanks to regular workers from other countries who are perfectly integrated and stay in Italy for a few months, returning year after year with mutual satisfaction. There are many "agricultural districts" where foreign workers are a well-integrated component of the economic and social fabric, as in the case of strawberry picking in the Veronese region, the preparation of rooted cuttings in Friuli, apples in Trentino, fruit in Emilia Romagna, grapes in Piedmont and dairy farms in Lombardy where mainly Indians carry out the work.
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