Paris – Agricultural food products and beverages bring to Lombardy more than €10.000 per minute worth of exports in 2015: about 7 tons of products exported every 60 seconds, every day, all year. More than a quarter of it all comes from Milan, then from Bergamo and Mantua (over one-tenth each). But the greatest increases come from Bergamo (+ 26%), Sondrio (+18.5%) and Como (+ 7.3%). Overall, exports remained stable compared to the previous year (+0.2%) but the share of wine and beverages grew considerably (+14.2%), much like that of processed and preserved fish and shellfish (+12.7%). The main destinations for Lombardy’s meat, fruit, cheese and starchy products is France, while fish goes to Greece, oils and wines to the United States, cereal and starches to Germany, and food products for animals to the Netherlands. The UK has increased its demand for bread and bakery products (+22%) and for wines and beverages (+11%), much like the United States (+14%), Japan for oils (+ 29.5%) and Switzerland for meat and fish (+9.8% and +7.6% respectively). This according to an analysis by the Milan Chamber of Commerce on ISTAT data comparing the first nine months of 2015 and 2014. (9Colonne)
