(ANSA) - ROME, APR 2 - Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said Sunday young Italians should be ready to work in the fields picking fruit rather than lounging on the sofa at home enjoying the 'citizenship wage' basic income which the government is phasing out, and added that the government is set to set up safe channels for legal migrants to do similar work.
    Lollobrigida, the minister for agriculture, forestries and food sovereignty, said: "Labour is needed in the countryside and young Italians must know that it is not debasing to go and work in agriculture. On the contrary, what is not a model of civilisation is not to go to work, stay on the couch and burden others' shoulders with the citizenship income." Speaking at Vinitaly in Verona on the issue of legal migrant flows, for the quotas of seasonal workers required for the harvesting campaigns, Lollobrigida added "On the flows, there is the will to organise them seriously, combating illegal immigration, and to train people in the migrants' countries of origin." (ANSA).