MILAN (Reuters) - Biodiesel output in Italy, Europe's third-biggest producer, may plunge 60-70 percent this year after falling 50 percent in the first six months of 2010 hit by cheap imports, a top industry official said on Thursday.
"We have a strong fall in production in the first half of this year, of about 50 percent, because of rapidly growing imports," said Maria Rosaria Di Somma, director general of the industry body Assocostieri-Unione Produttori Biocarburanti.