The
EU initiative ADAPT
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National
Park of the
Cilento and Vallo di Diano
Since 1993, the WWF-Italy, with the Cadispa program, is following
the activities of a cooperative of 150 producers in the new-born
National Park of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano, for this cooperative
takes a special care of the impacts on the agricultural-ecological
system of the olive-growths. The members of the cooperative "Nuovo
Cilento" (in the municipality of San Mauro Cilento) have actually
been the first producers in the Cilento region to implement the
integral control against the pest of the olive trees (Bactrocera
olea). With the help of the WWF, this cooperative, after it started
the production of organic olive oil, sold its organic extra-virgin
olive oil on the Panda catalogues of the WWF-Switzerland, Europe
and Japan with remarkable economical benefits at a local level.
Therefore, a new interest in the production of olives in the Cilento
region started together with an unpredictable multiplying effect
which involved a growing number of olive oil producers, and, within
a few years, the production of organic extra-virgin olive oil passed
from a few towns to some hundreds of tons, which is one of the biggest
productions of certified organic olive
oil in Italy. The Adapt program could consolidate its
results and spread them in other production areas and to other producers
in the Park.
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Description
of
the intervention
The intervention was therefore addressed to 15
farmers, producers and oil-millers working in the area
of the Park, selected by a committee. The 200 hours were divided
into 110 hours in the classroom and 90 hours of practical training.
The course developed training modules on: tree nurseries, agronomy,
organic farming, processing, oil chemistry, organoleptic values,
tasting techniques, commercialization and marketing with a specially
selected and qualified group of teachers, involving research institutes,
high quality teachers and companies at a national and international
level. The practical sessions were held in oil producing, processing
and commercialization farms selected in the most important olive-growing
areas in Italy: the CORIPROL tree-nursery of Pescia (province of
Pistoia); the Institute for Olive-growing Researches (Istituto per
le Ricerche in Olivicoltura) of the CNR (National Research Committee)
of Perugia; the area of Canino (province of Viterbo), an implementation
site for the researches of the ENEA (National Institute for Alternative
Energies) Innovation Department, Biotechnologies and Ecocompatible
Agriculture Division by the CRE of Casaccia (Rome); olive-growing
farms of the Sezione Operativa No. 81 (Trapani) of the Aldermanship
of Agriculture of the Regional Council of Sicily; the Maip-Piera-lisi;
the Alfa-Laval; the Co-operative Nuovo Cilento and the Sala di Assaggio
(oil-tasting room) by the CCIAA of Salerno.
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Cilento
N.P. : olive tree
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Results
The results obtained and the level of know-how reached by the trainees
were satisfactory, due to the
bottom-up methodology which was focused on the motivations and expectations
of the entrepreneurs involved in the training process. All the lectures
were attended by all the trainees. The subjects treated at a theoretical
level were always verified either with practical applications on
the field or in a processing factory or in an oil-tasting structure.
The sequence of the courses was articulated like the training modules
and many courses were organized in some farms or factories where
it was possible to verify directly the most critical points highlighted
by the lecturers during the theory courses. The course meticulously
treated all the possible situations, from the olive-grove
agricultural-ecological system to the extra-virgin olive
oil and to the market access.
In this way, the problems of the olive tree nursery, the good agronomical
practices, the techniques for the integrated pest control and for
organic farming became part of all the participants’ background
during the course.
The participants created an association, "L’Orciolo", the aim of
which is to spread the techniques of ecocompatible production in
the National Park of the Cilento-Vallo di Diano. In this context,
a set of regulations was established and distributed to all the
olive producers in the Park.
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Set
of regulation for ADAPT initiative
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Proposes
in the ADAPT comunities
initiatives
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The
EU initiative ADAPT - Innovative and sustainable olive growing |
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