Primer for agricultural dummies also useful for the political class. Talk Giansanti (Confagricoltura)

Aggregations, manpower, rejuvenation, digitization: the urgencies of the sector. A field full of contradictions and needs: from the strengthening of production capacity to scientific development

Agriculture: the realm of contradictions. We want to export our products but we don’t want to import them. We want zero kilometer but on the condition that it is the consumer who takes the car and goes to the company: the km are always the same, but let’s ignore it. No to intensive cultures, but the warning applies to those of others, Val di Non apples, instead they must be secular and traditional. We want pesticide-free products and then when we have geraniums hit by a moth we ask if there is an insect exterminating product on sale, even Napalm is fine. We want innovation when it comes to cell phones and medical facilities, we speak proudly of feminism and emancipation but the farmer must be what he once was and the kitchen obviously that of the grandmother who is known to cook like no one in the world: it is certain, women at the time that was what they had to do, household chores and cooking galore. In short, agriculture is the realm of contradictions because few know its grammar and therefore there are free words and few know the real tools used in agriculture, take a simple test: try to ask the difference between a hoe and a spade.