General Confederation of Italian Agriculture
Confagricoltura – General Confederation of Italian Agriculture
Confagricoltura is the oldest representative association of agricultural enterprises. We are committed to the development of farms and the primary sector at all, to the benefit of the community, with a focus on economy, environment and territory. We promote access to business innovation, sustainable agricultural practices and the competition of companies on domestic and international markets.
As our goal, we aim to safeguard farmers' income; to follow the evolution of sector regulations and to simplification; to overcome structural gaps and restraints on competitiveness; to promote free access to international markets; to reorganize the production system with a view to aggregations and networks; to grow up an inter-sectoral supply chains; and to protect the Made in Italy.
Our actions are strictly related at a specific system of values - defined by the Code of Ethics of Confagricoltura - that even member companies must embed and respect, as associative identity of the Confederation.
The added value of Confagricoltura is its spread professional network, geared with a shared strategy to provide its member companies with protection, sector information and quality and innovative services.
Confagricoltura has a capillary presence throughout the Country, with Regional Federations (in every region), Provincial Unions (in all provinces), area offices and municipal delegations (over 2,200 offices), as well as through Trade Federations (to which regional and provincial trade unions belong) and Product Federations (which frame the corresponding regional and provincial product sections).
Confagricoltura also has an office in Brussels, while the national HQ is in Rome, in the historic Palazzo della Valle.
Confederation figures
The Confederation presence:
Over 200,000 agricultural enterprises associated
Around 64 million working days
Over 500,000 workers employed
45% of national agricultural production and related added value
- 29 billion euro value of production
- 16 billion euro of added value
- Approximately 1/3 of the national agricultural surface area
Confagricoltura is active in all the main institutional bodies, at national and international levels, strictly connected to agriculture or relevant to the sector, such as CNEL - National Economic and Labour Council, COPA - Committee of European Agricultural Organisations, GEOPA - European Coordination of Employers' Organisations, and EESC - European Economic and Social Committee.
Furthermore, we are active participants in consultation tables between the social partners and the Government.
The national and provincial collective agreements for sectoral workers, employees and employers, as well as the national collective agreement for employees of green companies, have always been stipulated in Confagricoltura headquarters.
