Italian table grape farmers cooperate to improve soil quality

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Publication date	Monday, 9 December, 2019
Keywords	Farming practice soil health contamination

In the Italian region of Apulia, 22 grape farmers are working together in a cooperative. Pasquale Parente works as an agronomist for OP OROFRUIT. “Our cooperative has set very high standards to keep our soil healthy and to increase its quality. Growing grapes is a very input-intensive process and it could potentially contaminate soils. This can happen by the overuse of fertilisers and other chemical inputs. Working together therefore is very powerful to prevent soil contamination”, he says.

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