The protest of the farmers? For Al Bano it is sacrosanct. He tells the Corriere della Sera while in Paris ready to go sing at a private party. "I am a farmer at heart. Given that I hope that this anger does not overflow in the French way, as happened with the "yellow vests", I hope that the European Union and Italy open their eyes to a reality that is dramatic".
Dramatic because "to those who rule in Brussels I would like to show the accounts of my farm, just over 150 hectares, mainly vineyards and olive groves. If I were not a singer, if I did not carry on my activity with concerts, I would not be able to make it, I would be a farmer reduced to hunger. But it is a war bulletin, many companies close in my Puglia as much as in the rest of Italy: high costs, negligible earnings...". An example? Easy: "For a kilo of radicchio the producer gets a pittance, yes and no 50 cents, but at retail it reaches three euros".
The protest
Al Bano does not ask for anything but "I would like those who legislate without knowing anything about agriculture, who decide while in the closed of their offices, to come to work for me for some time, I do not say a year, a couple of months would be enough". To Corsera he wants to remember that "the farmer's job is very hard, you wake up at four in the morning and go to the fields in any weather condition: cold, African heat, rain. No schedules, you finish when you have to finish and then maybe a hailstorm comes that ruins the harvest...". Today Al Bano dedicates "280 days a year for concerts. The rest is in the fields. But the thought for the harvest is continuous". Then he announces: "If I will be free, maybe I will be in Rome next week. With the tractor".
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