BIOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE

In order to obtain healthy foods and of quality, it has been developed in particular in the last decade, biological agriculture, a field with precise Regulations of the European Union and from legislative provisions national you.

Biological agriculture pursues "clean" an agricultural and food- production, in perfect harmony with the nature, excludes the use, in the fields and the stables, of the chemical products of synthesis (pesticidi, erbicidi, fertilizers, antibiotics, etc.), with more objects declares to you to you: to produce foods that conserve all their natural property; to raise healthy animals, respecting their well-being; to recover the biodiversity, preservando landscaped integrity of the territory and its aspects. A road that appears by now indispensable in order to improve the quality of the life and the atmosphere. The consumers begin to aware of such being premised: in fact, the consumption of biological products, also in our Country, is in constant increase...

A healthy and vital ground is the corrected line of departure in order to obtain produced heals and vital. This is the first engagement of the biological agriculturist. Bandit therefore tans to me, diserbanti, insecticide, fungicides of chemical origin, in biological the increase of the plants comes supported from uses of organic products (like the letame, the compost) or of techniques (like the sovescio, the colturali spins) appropriated, from uses of products or natural mechanisms of defense (like sulfur, branch, macerates you of plants, launch of useful bugs predators of adorned to you, consociazione of various plants). Ancient varieties are recovered also or forgotten, talora less productive, but more peasant and therefore less attachable from you adorned to you. The improvement or the recovery of the biodiversity in the within of the agrarian ecosystem, obtained through the conservation or the reimpianto of siepi, small wood, small water mirrors, bands of respect, is other extremities ally of the biological agriculturist, that it uses always average mechanics appropriates to you, of reasonable power, and operates the minimal workings of the ground (es. little deep plowing, seeds on hard), for preservarne and increasing of the presence of organic substance. In biological agriculture naturally is prohibited uses it of seeds or organisms genetically modified.

Biological agriculture comprises and favours the nature. It refuses the solutions offered from chemistry and the genetics and asks the producers ecological responsibility and professionality; tip to the high quality, to the every conservation of precious resource, to the safeguard acclimatizes them and to the well-being of the animals; it respects the requirements of producers and consumers. All object to you that they are finding important consents: a lot is true that, in the last decade, the biological one has grown considerable, for a greater sensibility acclimatizes them and attention to the health. The field is therefore in constant progression, and indeed the demand exceeds the offer by now, in Italy like in the world. Today in our country, to testimony of the validity of the method, they are more than 50mila the companies that practice to agriculture or the biological zootechny, on beyond a million hectares (as to say the space of the Basilicata. Therefore in the European and world-wide context Italy, thanks to its climate, the wealth and diversity of its ecosystems, to the tipicità and variety of its products, thanks to its great agricultural and food- and gastronomiche traditions, is shaped like the ideal country, perfectly vocato, for the biological productions, all high-quality, and to the tipicità of all our Regions.

The products of biological agriculture, for their intrinsic qualities, are good and gustosi, sure to eat and with it elevates values to you nourished to you, advanced to the products of conventional agriculture (it has been tried the presence of greater amount of vitamins, knows them mineral, oligoelements), to all advantage of our health. It is true, their price is advanced to that one of the alimony of conventional agriculture, but that has had in part to the costs of the certification (is the only alimentary products controls in all is made to you of the production), to the smaller productions, the greater labor demanded in the fields, in part to a system of distribution still not well to point. But we are not disposed to more pay something for having to real table genuinità, quality and absolute emergency?

Although the validity also of a balanced diet is tried vegetarian, the meat plays an important role in the feeding. The norms that regulate the biological breedings are precise, and answer in primis to a fundamental principle of base: to the well-being of the animals the maximum cure must be turned. In the biological breedings an important role in the first place covers the choice of the race, that it must be possibly native, that it wants to say more peasant, own than that particular territory, that very s' adapted therefore  to the atmosphere and offers greater guarantees of physical resistance. The animal comes then raised with an feeding appropriated to its requirements, leaving space to its natural behaviors, free to be also to the open and in spaces it adapts to you. Some mutilation cannot be provoked, neither somministrargli synthetic substances that of it accelerate the increase, of it increases to the appetite or the production; it eats to me must be composed from ingredients of biological origin vegetable and, while hormones, antibiotics and allopatiche cures are announced publicly. The only concurred cures are those omeopatiche. In the biological products therefore they do not find space coloring, conserving, points out to you crafts them in kind. And here the consumer must be careful, because they exist in commerce, pubblicizzati in particular from the great industry, "small mirrors for allodole", products that is that fregiano of the natural ", "bio", "echo-compatible" term always well ", "from integrated biological fight" and therefore via that null they have to that to see with the truly biological products. For these, in fact, the examinations... never do not end! Biological agriculture and breedings are in fact subordinates to a rigorous control system, conformed on the entire territory of the European Union to the senses of Reg. CE 2092/91 and happened to you, that it monitors the entire cycle of the product, from the preparation of the land for it seeds it until the sale. The biological companies, come inspected (also to surprise) in all theirs amble to you, lands, stables warehouses, cargo and drainage of the products, etc. To the end, only who has entered in the regimen of control, compying with demanded how much from the law, can define the own products like coming from "from biological agriculture". And the exact dicitura is this in order to recognize them. It appears on the label, on which they must be also indicates to you: the name, for extended, of the control organism (one of the nine, you see in appendix); the ends of the ministerial authorization; the acronym of Italy (IT), that one of the control organism (code of 3 letters), the code of the producer, the T letter (produced transformed) or F (produced fresh) together to the authorization number. All these elements form a "identity card" of the product that cannot be counterfeit (in more exists the adopted Communitarian brand from the European Commission to aim ' 99, but its presence in label is optional), and that it guarantees the consumer who at least 95% of the ingredients of agricultural origin of that product are sure "bio".

Who is the controllers?

They have been chosen for independence, impartiality, effectiveness, competence and reliability. They operate on all the national territory with beyond a thousand of technicians, which work in the various regional and provincial centers, and are the protagonists of that "control system" (instituted in the States of the European Union) that it certifys the production processes of the biological one. Their task? To control and to certify the Italian biological productions, according to the European Regulations and the Italian law, guaranteeing the consumer - that it has chosen to nourish itself biologically - the absolutely natural quality of how much has in the plate.