Our production model is a [b]champion[/b] in [b]value-added[/b] production per hectare: more than double the EU-27 average, three times that of the United Kingdom, double that of Spain and Germany, and 70% more than France.
Italy is the [b]strongest country in the world[/b] for “distinctive” products, with 272 PDO and PGI products and 4,886 traditional regional specialities that safeguard biodiversity and defend tradition and employment.
Italy is at the top of world food [b]safety[/b].
Italian agriculture is among the most [b]sustainable[/b]: it emits 35% less greenhouse gas than the EU average.
Italy has the largest network of farms and farmers’ markets selling directly at [b]zero food miles[/b], cutting the pollution caused by transport.[/i]
These records make us proud and encourage us to keep doing better, more and more, [b]joining forces[/b] and making our voice heard loud and clear – the voice of the producers – because we know that [b]the biggest battles[/b], those against the market, against speculation and against the never-sufficient attention from institutions, are not won alone, but always and only by [b]working together[/b].
[b]Lazio[/b] is a [b]strategic region[/b] for Italian agri-food, and the regional [b]olive-growing sector[/b], largely represented by our PO in terms of number of members and hectares of olive groves, is a fundamental [b]pillar[/b] of our [b]economy[/b] and an irreplaceable [b]safeguard[/b] for our [b]territory[/b].
There are many battles that, in our region, we fight alongside [b]Coldiretti[/b]; among them it is worth mentioning the [b]reform[/b] of the [b]school canteen[/b] tender model, so that it rewards not the lowest bid but the qualitatively better offer and local origin, or the [b]Roma PGI[/b] project, a unique opportunity for Lazio and, at the same time, a powerful driving force for the whole world of Italian oil.
For these reasons [b]OP LATIUM[/b] invites all its members, [b]#OlivicoltoriDelLazio[/b], to take a leading role on [b]Saturday 11 June 2016[/b] at 9:00 AM in [b]Rome[/b] at Pala Tiziano (Piazza Apollodoro, 10) for the Lazio leg of the tour organised across Italy by Coldiretti to give [b]visibility[/b] to the farming sector: this is [b]a hugely important occasion[/b] to highlight [b]Lazio’s olive-growing sector[/b] and its central role, not only in production but also environmentally, socially and culturally.
