Organic farming

Organic farming respects the whole agricultural ecosystem, exploits the natural soil fertility, promotes the biodiversity of the environment through limited operations and excludes the use of synthetic products (expect those admitted by the EU Reg.) and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Organic farming is a production method ruled by the EU Reg. 2092/91 and the following Reg. 834/2007 defining:

- production rules
- usable raw materials
- control and certification
- importing from third countries
- labelling

The principal purposes are:

Safeguarding the consumer health and generally of all people.

Excluding peremptorily GMO.

Reducing the pollution of non-reproducible natural resources like hearth, water and air.

Preserving biodiversity with the introduction of hedges, shrubbery, crop rotations.

Breeding animals respecting their natural habits as the possibility to move in open spaces or pens and stables enough big for them, feeding them with hay and organic cereals, without hormonal or antibiotics treatments and intensive feeding in order to increase their growth.

Keeping the cultivation of ancient cereals like spelt, kamut and other cereals like millet and buckwheat.

Promoting a farming method which does not use chemical or synthetic residues and does not pollute or produce polluted raw materials.

Granting an adequate income for farmers.

New Reg. 834/2007 rules organic farming as a complete system of managing farms and agri-food production methods based on several factprs like the best environmental practices, high level of biodiversity, safeguard of natural resources and application of strict rules referring to the wellness of animals.