Organic farming in Apulia: now published the fourth yearbook

<div style="text-align: justify;">In Italy, Apulia represents one of the most important realities for organic farming, both for the number of organic operators and the organic surface, a region whose organic productions are developed for the internal market and for export. To consolidate such reality, the Regional Authority has launched the "Regional programme for organic farming in Apulia", and inside this programme a second project has been developed, "Actions to develop organic farming". This last initiative has seen the birth of the "Regional observatory on organic farming", carried out by MAIB – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari. The observatory's final goal is to support the sector's strenghtening at regional level and to promote, through the elaboration of specific analysis and studies, the further growth of organic productions, a key issue to relaunch all the Apulia agriculture sector, a key issue also for the regional economic system.<br>Other information can be found on <a href="http://www.biologicopuglia.it/">www.biologicopuglia.it</a&gt; , and on <a href="http://www.biologicopuglia.it/images/stories/pdf/3%20annuario.pdf">the 3d yearbook published in 2008</a>.<br><br><br><a href="../share/img_lib_files/1639_4-annuario_puglia.pdf">Organic farming in Apulia – 4th yearbook – Data 2009</a> (in Italian)<br></div><br><br>Source: IAMB<br>