La Confederazione italiana agricoltori (Cia) pensa che gli agricoltori siano gli ultimi paladini della biodiversità, i «custodi dei flavors and a knowledge and gather in the 'Atlas of seed lost "all the farmers who" have revived traditions, cultivation, uses and secular culture, preserving seeds now unknown, raising the risk that animals 'extinction and continue to prepare and to produce films that you are losing track, and instead, have been the power of past generations, enriching the tables and delighting palates. The national president of the CIA, Giuseppe Politi has already presented the contents of a proposal to Parliament for the legal recognition of these farmers and to finance the activities of conservation and production of traditional crops and traditional. "Our aim - said Politi - is to promote the wise and onerous work of many farmers who have long devoted to conservation of biodiversity , the protection of a culture and a history which dates centuries. The implementation of the Atlas is not, therefore, only a guide or 'handbook' to the agricultural and food paths of the past linked to the territory, but should also include the proper recognition of those who chose to work for a ' rich and diverse agriculture for the preservation of biodiversity rural , to give value to our rural culture. " The defense of agricultural biodiversity is a priority for the CIA. That explains how "the last hundred years in the world are missing three-quarters of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops." And currently over 1350 are in danger of extinction. "Only in Italy in the late eighteenth century there were more than 8000 varieties of fruit , while today it comes to just under 2000," states the CIA. Apples are the most striking example: "At the beginning of 1900 in Europe were known varieties 5000. Now do not exceed 1800. A figure for Italy to understand the picture: about 80 percent of the apples produced belongs to only four groups of cultivars: two Americans (the red and yellow Red Delicious Golden Delicious), an Australian (the green Granny Smith) and one New Zealand (the bi-color Gala). It should not be better for the vegetable species with more than 90% of seeds of commercial varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, melons, watermelons, and many are patented hybrid varieties of which more than 35 years (3 % of total) at risk of disappearing forever.
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