Enhance ancient grains, local Calabrian products and create new job and development opportunities. It is an ambitious project that of the Community of ancient grains and historic active stone mills, which wants to relaunch the organic supply chain.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himValuing i ancient grains, local Calabrian products and create new job and development opportunities. It is an ambitious project that of Community of ancient grains and historical active stone mills, which wants to relaunch the organic supply chain in Calabria.
“The community was born with the aim of put on the net the active stone mills in Calabria, build a regional supply chain of baked goods, bread, pasta with ancient varieties of local and organic grains ”, he explained Pino Campisi, regional president of Acli Terra.
Starting again, therefore, from the agricultural vocation to protect the small producers local that in recent years, have been ditched by multinationals creating a clean supply chain that engages farms, mills, pasta factories, bakeries and biscuit factories.
The project is promoted by a long list of associations, cooperatives, companies and producers with the proponent of the Calabria Agricultural Park and leader Slow food Lamezia Terme.
The front door is there land, regarded as a registered capital, in which the active stone mills represent a productive and cultural asset who cannot and must not die. For this reason, the community wants to relaunch them by having them managed by artisan businesses, taking an example from the young entrepreneur who had saved the last organic stone mill in Calabria.
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The stone ground flours keep the wheat germ, therefore, they guarantee a final product that maintains authenticity and is good for health. In recent days we had talked to you about mycotoxins and pesticides in pasta, very serious accusations against producers.
The constitution, therefore, of a clean regional supply chain could be the right answer towards change and the adoption of a more diet sustainable.
The Community is already working to network active stone mills, to create a regional brand and new jobs, also favoring the reintegration of people at risk of social exclusion, such as prisoners and the disabled.
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“You need to approve one specific law on the subject that operates with certification criteria, encourage specialization courses and the institutionalization of the project by the Fair Authority and the Municipality of Lamezia Terme with three days dedicated to the grain community ”, continues Campisi.
A task force wide-ranging, to survey the arable land available for the cultivation of ancient grains, to create a regional park, to train experts in search, recovery and traceability of the variety of cereals.
In summary: work, agriculture and economic development in Calabria, a land of mills.
Dominella Trunfio
