-Perché potiamo l’ulivo (trailer)
Valle d’Itria, Puglia – 2019 (2 minuti)
Valle d’Itria, Puglia – 2019 (2 minuti)
Nel 2013 il batterio Xylella fastidiosa, subspecie pauca è stato rilevato in Puglia, e la sua presenza è stata subito messa in relazione ai disseccamenti degli ulivi segnalati dagli agricoltori nelle campagne di Gallipoli, nel Salento. Secondo le leggi dell’Unione Europea la Xylella è un “patogeno da quarantena”, cioè un organismo da tenere fuori dello spazio comunitario in ogni sua forma, poiché è ritenuto una causa potenziale di danni enormi all’ecosistema e all’economia di interi territori.
Extra-virgin olive oil production at the “Cima di Bitonto” Cooperative Oil Mill of Bitonto, a town south of Bari that has about 55 thousand inhabitants and more than one million and a half olive trees.
With modern machinery, a well-kept olive grove and the right attitude, three people can go a long way today’s olive oil sector. Antonio, Pasquale and Domenico definitely have plenty of attitude, and on this day they harvested more than 6,000 kg of olives, filling an entire truck while still being very nice to some photographer who showed up out of nowhere and could not stop asking questions.
Two brothers harvesting their olives in the countryside at the souther end of Salento, deep in the area affected by the “CoDiRO” outbreak, the disease commonly known as “Xylella” (after a plant bacteria that is one of its causes) that is affecting millions of olive trees and threatens to wipe out the area’s main production.