WHICH AGRICULTURE AFTER THE LOCKDOWN THE GREEN FUTURE PRESENTED BY VENETO AGRICOLTURA

Not a book of dreams, but precise lines of action and projects that will mark the activity of Veneto Agriculture until 2023. With these words, the Extraordinary Commissioner of the Regional Agency Alberto Negro welcomed the Sasse-Rami experimental company in Ceregnano (RO), one of the most important of Veneto Agriculture, the so-called stakeholders , or those directly interested in the activity of the entity. First of all the Region , let's say the reference shareholder; the agricultural professional organizations, Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, Cia and Copagri ; the University , in the specific case that of Padua ; and CREA , the body of the Ministry for agricultural research.

A morning of confrontation with some key words in the foreground, such as sustainability, adaptation, sharing and digitization . The technicians of the Legnaro (PD) agency constantly study the primary sector and the evolution it is going through. There is a strong demand from the agricultural world itself and from consumers for actions increasingly in line with food safety, animal welfare and the environment, products that are the result of increasingly sustainable practices or with zero impact on the balance of the various natural systems. . The Green Deal and the “Farm to fork” strategy decreed by the European Union are an unavoidable reference, ruled Negro . During the lockdown these needs are even more increased. But that's not enough. A digital technological update is needed for the entire primary sector and also within Veneto Agriculture itself, which has launched its ambitious project in the direction of the so-called “ 4.0 ”.

They liked this approach to those present. So much so that both the President of Confagricoltra Lodovico Giustiniani and the Vice President of Coldiretti, Carlo Salvan from Rovigo , see in the sharing and breadth of the technical issues addressed excellent prospects for a positive synergy towards the agriculture to come . We need to grow in infrastructural adaptation, then said the regional President of CIA Gianmichele Passerini , today, for example, we do not yet have broadband in our campaigns. Also important are the projects of knowledge transfer, that is of communication-dissemination, underlined Prof. Luigi Sartori , President of the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Padua; For some time now, the University and Veneto Agriculture have collaborated, but this interesting “4.0” project meets and enhances the growth undertaken by our country and our students during the pandemic . A very comforting "good morning", concluded Negro , to make agriculture in the Veneto increasingly competitive in the face of a rapidly changing world ...