Matteo Zoppas, President of the Italian Trade Agency (ICE): “Together with FederUnacoma, among other activities, we are working to develop the export of the sector also as envisaged by the Mattei Plan, promoted by the Meloni Government, which has indicated a clear priority in the development of standards of agricultural technologies in African countries together with water management and land cultivation. ICE supports Italian agri-tech companies with a wide range of initiatives that include incoming, collectives, missions and business forums, workshops and training projects. The agricultural machinery sector accounted for approximately EUR 10 billion in exports in 2023, a growth of 10% compared to 2022 and 40% compared to 2019, higher than the increase in Italian exports as a whole. It is a business-to-business category of high technological value in which Italian leadership has unquestionable value”.
Lorenzo Galanti, General Director of the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) “The agricultural machinery sector truly represents the excellence of Made in Italy technology, to such a degree that Italy is the fourth largest exporting nation in the world behind Germany, the USA and China. In particular, we are recognized for our specific and distinctive expertise in the small and medium cultivation segment, which includes such productions as high added value crops, which require specific technologies. As ICE we are proud to support EIMA, an event of international importance, sharing with the over 400 operators and 40 foreign journalists at the fair the result of the great work of ICE’s offices around the world. Our efforts are aimed at generating concrete opportunities for operators to get together in order to support the great quality of the Italian agricultural machinery industry”.
