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[5 Feb 2010 | View Comments | ]

“South, unleashing the agrienergy” …. “The  most suitable crops seem to be cane, thistle, panic (grass) and sorghum sugar” … ”The corn-powered stove beats the fireplace with an efficiency of over 80% “… “A quarter of U.S. grain feed cars, not people” … “The figures for 2009 show that the grain grown to produce fuel in 2009 would have been enough to feed 330 million people for one year” …
Those are some of the headlines and articles that for some time now we are reading more and more specialized agriculture and trade …

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[5 Feb 2010 | View Comments | ]

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 …