Italy was a founding member of the European Union
Capital city:Rome
Population:58,126,212 (July 2009 est.)..
Currency:Euro
Language:Italian
Italy has a diversified industrial economy, which is divided into a developed industrial north, dominated by private companies, and a less-developed, welfare-dependent, agricultural south, with high unemployment. The Italian economy is driven in large part by the manufacture of high-quality consumer goods produced by small and medium-sized enterprises. Italy also has a sizable underground economy, which by some estimates accounts for as much as 15% of GDP. These activities are most common within the agriculture, construction, and service sectors. Italy has moved slowly on implementing needed structural reforms, such as lightening the high tax burden and overhauling Italy's rigid labor market and over-generous pension system and these conditions will be exacerbated by the recent global financial crisis. The Italian government is seeking to rein in government spending, but the leadership faces a severe economic constraint: Italy's official debt remains above 100% of GDP, and the fiscal deficit - 1.5% of GDP in 2007 - could approach 3% in 2009 as political pressure to stimulate the economy and the costs of servicing Italy's debt rise. The economy will continue to contract through 2009 as the global demand for exports drop.
GDP - composition by sector
agriculture: 2%
Industry: 27%
Services: 71% (2008 est.)..
Source: CIA
Latest news on Italian poultry
15 May 2012 - A group of scientists collaborating from Canada, Spain and Italy have published a study in Current Biology on the sleep and waking patterns of chicken embryos and how they can be influenced from outside the shell.
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09 May 2012 - Italian research investigated the use of a Bifidobacterium-based synbiotic product to reduce the transmission of C. jejuni along the poultry food chain.
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09 Apr 2012 - Aviagen Italia recently held a broiler seminar for customers in Bologna, Romagna Region of Italy, with presentations from a number of key Aviagen experts. The event attracted over 85 attendees representing all players in the Italian poultry industry.
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28 Mar 2012 - Eggs, food processing, economics, the environment – it’s all connected; this was the message as the IEC conference in Venice drew to a close.
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26 Mar 2012 - In the Arezzo countryside, Newcastle disease has laid low hundreds of turtledoves, and there are fears that it could be spreading.
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09 Feb 2012 - The new Vega has been designed to feed 16 female breeder birds of any of the current genetics lines.
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11 Jan 2011 - Poultry organisation representatives from around the world will meet jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN when the International Poultry Council (IPC) returns to Rome for its 2011 spring meeting.
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16 Dec 2010 - On November 25 more than 130 European professionals, ranging from farmers
to veterinary doctors, media and technical people, gathered at the Ska premises for a seminar
on the upcoming 2012 deadline set by EU regulations on egg production.
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31 Aug 2010 - Executives from Societa Agricola Valversa, Hy-Line’s exclusive distributor in Italy, toured the Hy-Line Millennium Hatchery and parent farms located near Birmingham, England, discussed Hy-Line’s global activities, and reviewed product performance with Hy-Line staff.
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10 Aug 2010 - Aviagen Italia recently received representatives from La Pellegrina for a behind-the-scenes tour of Aviagen’s Scottish facilities. La Pellegrina is one of Aviagen Italia’s largest customers, placing around 1.5 m parent stock birds each year. The Ross 708 bird has been particularly successful in the Italian market.
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17 Jun 2010 - Vega is the new breeder feeder of SKA. It can feed 16 birds of any of the current genetic lines. Effectively this means 21 birds per full metre of the feeding line.
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06 May 2010 - Aviagen Italia recently held a half-day Ventilation Seminar in Bologna with ventilation expert Mike Czarik. The event was attended by nearly 100 attendees, representing all major Italian poultry companies and several of the country’s broiler growers.
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19 Feb 2007 - Nutreco Holding N.V. announced today the takeover of
the animal feed blends, premix and base mix business of BASF in Poland, Italy,
USA, UK, Mexico, Guatemala, China and Indonesia. The purchase price is not
disclosed.
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