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Italy is the world's largest wine producer (22% of global market), as well as the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world. [1] [2] [3]. Agriculture in Italy, one of the economic sectors of the country, has developed since the 5th millennium BC.
Global warming, drought and plant disease pose a growing threat to agriculture in Italy's arid south, but a startup founded by a former telecoms manager believes it has found a solution: Opuntia ...
Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat.
Agricultural buildings in Italy (1 C, 3 P) D. Dairy farming in Italy (2 C, 1 P) F. Italian farmers (3 P) Forestry in Italy (3 C, 8 P) O. Agricultural organisations ...
Drought and unusually hot weather have raised the salinity in Italy’s largest delta, where the mighty Po River feeds into the Adriatic Sea south of Venice, and it’s killing rice fields along ...
The Ministry, based at the Palazzo dell'Agricoltura in Rome, produces and coordinates government policy on agriculture, forests, food and fisheries at national, European and international levels. The current Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests is Francesco Lollobrigida.
The economy of Italy is a highly developed social market economy. [31] It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the second-largest manufacturing industry in Europe (7th-largest in the world), [32] the 8th-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and the 11th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP.
The International Institute of Agriculture (IIA) was the first organization to systematically produce and exchange global data on crops, cultivated land, and trade flows. [1] The late 19th century called for a demand in worldwide data on production, stocks, and consumption, as a rise in agricultural commoditities emerged in global markets. [2]