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Agriculture in Italy.

Informations regarding agriculture in Italy.

Agriculture in Italy is very developed thanks to our assorted territory and abundance of water, enabling us to obtain a mixed variety of high-quality fruit and vegetable products. We must also give merit to our Italian farmers who dedicate themselves to their productions with great passion, meeting all healthiness and quality standards, promoting biological products and trying to grow as much as possible without using undesirable and unhealthy chemical products. Zootechnology is developed as well and the animals bred in Italy are among the most tested and safe in the world, with great merit to the testing structures which are very punctual and scrupulous to guarantee citizens' health.

fruits vegetables and agricultural productions from Italy

Agricultural production in Italy.

Our productions are always the best quality-wise and the DOP (Denomination of Protected Origin) DOCG (Denomination of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin), IGP (Protected Geographical Indication) products are increasing and scrupulous controls are being made, not only in the fruit and vegetable sector, but also in the oil and wine sectors, with official authorized laboratories which give certifications for the various sectors.

Agricultural distribution in Italy.

Due to the long and narrow conformation of our peninsula, agricultural products from the south of Italy must cross long distances, up to 1000km. or more, to be distributed throughout the national territory. This type of distribution is sadly still done by means of lorries crossing km. of highways, which is not only polluting, but also very expensive. The ideal means of transportation is the railway, which is less polluting and much cheaper, but unfortunatelly it still isn't organized efficiently. This is an every-day problem for many producers, imagine for instance a Sicilian citrus producer who needs to make his products travel up to 1300 km, often all by lorry, to be able to sell them in the markets in the northern part of Italy.

Italian agricultural industries.

The agricultural census of the year 2000 gave the results of 2.6 thousand agricultural, zootechnical, forest industries in Italy, with a total extension of 19,6 thousand hectares. To know more visit the site http://www.istat.it/censimenti/agricoltura .

General markets

Zootechnical

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