Apr 25, 2020
Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova has also called for mass regularisation of undocumented migrants in Italy in order to get the economy moving again. Many are currently living in shanty towns and are exploited by the mafia and an illegal labour system known as "caporalato", where intermediaries who bring workers to farmers take a large part of their meagre wages. The proposal, approved by Coldiretti, was slammed by the far-right.
Giovanni Grezzi with Celine Cornu, 'Crops rot as Italian farmers hit by virus, drought', Yahoo News