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Tuscan agriculture is betting on youth and the organic sector

2020-07-03T19:34:49.565Z


To repopulate and revive these lands, the region undertook in 2012 an unprecedented initiative in the world, by creating a "banca di terra".


The “Maremma” is the Italian pampa with its horses and oxen that resist everything. In the south-east of Tuscany, in the large and almost empty province of Grosseto, this hard and wild land conquered on ancient marshes raging with malaria has long been synonymous with hard work and poverty. With its olive trees shaken by the winds and its vines crossed by this light that makes good wines, it does not have these airs of manicured nature of Chianti or Montepulciano, further west. But it captivates to the point of having generated "Maremma's sickness" among its visitors.

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To repopulate and revive these lands, exploit the Tuscany brand and contribute to the maintenance of soils threatened by erosion and fires, the region undertook in 2012 an unprecedented initiative in the world, by creating a "banca di terra" , a land reserve of a particular mode managed by the Ente Terre Regionali Toscane (ETRT). This strategy has been followed by all Italian regions. ETRT settled

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Source: lefigaro

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