Numbers are often the mirror of reality. In five years, public funding fell by nearly one million euros. In 2009, the Mantovani breeders Association, one of the most important in Italy, could rely on funding for 3,102,736 euros, against a management expense of 5,775,411 euros.
In 2013, public support fell to € 2,187,036. Of course, we have cut management costs down to 5.077.741 euros. All in all, for how the country is turning, for the decline in food consumption and the erosion of margins that inexorably affect agriculture, perhaps we are less worse than others.