AgryCult

Fortunately it doesn’t happen often to be able use this tool with its spikey iron wheels but this is the right time of year. Our land, the Baraggia is harsh and the weather rains heavily. There isn’t any escape and in rice fields with the rubber you can’t get around easily. In this way using this tool is an extreme solution but the only possibilty at this moment, it requires a lot more time and a lot of patience.

Image by Minouto via Flickr

In the last few days I have learnt with a pinch of stupor that a Friulian agriculturist claims the right of freedon to sow asking to be free to cultivate OGM cereals.
During this time we have assisted in a lot of initiatives and theories pro OGM. Often superficial because there is too much speculation over the reality of the fields that are often more complex than most people believe. In the countryside there is such a variability and unpredictable number of events that one can not …

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Today the European union has cleared the potato OGM Amflora but if they thought to amaze us agriculturists by nature they should give up because we don’t belong to their financial logic
 This movement has been expected for some time with the most foolish ready to steal from us, convinced OGM will mean higher margins for agriculture.
These are shocking dellusions because the business of products for agriculturists has no intention to reduce their own admission.

My name is Carlo Zaccaria.
I was born in Biella on  December 16th 1973. From then on I’ve been living in Salussola, a small town located in a particular territory extremely suited for rice, called the Baraggia. I’ve been living ever since in a farmhouse in the midst of our rice fields in a landscape that, in certain times of the year, takes  very suggestive appearances. I studied many years, graduated in Biological Sciences, but rice marked my entire working life. My family has always been committed to agriculture. Since I was a child I have taken the first steps as a farmer  on the …