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good evening I ‘m daniele falls one
national manager of the sector
sheep and goats of the cooperatives league
tonight we talk about sheep farming
I will try to combine Sardinian pastoralism
together with economic problems
of our region and alle
potential that cooperation in
these last 50 years she managed to give
to the sector
let’s talk about an industry that starts at
develop strongly in the end
of the nineteenth century when in practice the
interests of some big traders
of the united states they crossed with
those of some dairy and industrial companies
Lazio so you can use
the island to produce milk like
production of almost cheese
always for which no Roman was going
precisely to end up in the United States
these big landowners obviously
they were then interested in them and the gods
industrial and this remained so
until then a law does not cook them
allowed these to
disinterest in Sardinian production
to give the land to the shepherds they have
started the processing of land
constitution of the flocks and production
of milk from to be able then to produce the
finished product and then the cheese
these big initial difficulties that
it was precisely that due to one
production of an often poor product
that was not remunerated in terms of
important quantity also because i
Americans did not recognize one
great a great value added to
to the breeder the shepherd was fine
because through incentives
national and regional authorities succeeded in doing so
square to make ends meet
when then however it started to
free the will of the breeder
to succeed in getting greater
remuneration from that price and therefore of
exit also from the industrial binomial and
export have begun to come
out precisely the first aggregations of
of cooperatives the most cooperative
old woman we have in Sardinia is
dated one thousand
907 is the litde of bortigals
from that moment begins an ascent of the
cooperative sector in Sardinia
which will lead to having some in
some moments even 50 cooperatives that
they produced goat’s milk
at present they are much less are
thirty with some big
difficulty others that are tips of
excellence and that now sail among the
70 and 60 years 60 years of life
obviously this is a sector for us
driving is important is worth a
third of the Sardinian economy and it is
important also because in it we have
spent and resources we spent
intelligences and we have searched for
years also to improve those ones
that were the difficulties but above all
It is an important sector for the whole
Mediterranean basin
think that the entire sector is ovi
world goat finds in the basin of the
20 percent of its Mediterranean
production
something that does not happen in the sector instead
vaccine that represents in this area
of the world only 7 percent
we have different productions
because we have an area of the
Mediterranean that more suited to produce
milk and then to have an animal that
it basically tends to produce milk
for the transformation is another part
instead which basically tends to
produce lambs like meat lambs
you can meet these two moments
it is certainly not easy to succeed
produce how to say an animal that
can complete the supply chain is that it can
be useful on both sides of the
Mediterranean
but in the last few years something
something has moved something
has changed obviously has also changed
thanks to the contribution we say of the
cooperatives to the contribution that this is
a data also through relationships
increasingly close with other regions
Italian production see the Tuscany
Lazio and Umbria but also with some
parts of the
from the north of north africa that precisely
they produce milk and sheep and goat cheeses
what is the current situation?
current situation is no longer that of
a few years ago and that is about one
million hectares for production
of grass and grasses for for
allow the sheep to grow
their nutritional value then e
increase the ownership of milk and not
it is not even that of the 3 million heads
present until a few years ago it is
trying to improve quality
of the animal and at the same time also
through studies done
from the University of Florence presented
even in the United States that of doing
understand to milk consumers that the
sheep’s milk has characteristics
higher than cow’s milk
even even to counteract the
breast and colon tumors with
presence of proteins inside the
milk produced in important sardinia
just because of the contrast to these two
terrible diseases due to the fact that
with an ivam a wild breeding
so with a sheep that manages to
eat and ruminate in the ground
Sardinian soil is present are present
some proteins that are then ingested
the animal is then found again
within the initial milk product
which is then transferred to the
of the finished product
of course we say that it is an embryo of
attempt to pass the milk of
sheep that objectively as vi
I explained before the features
more positive than that of cow
but while we produce it we consume
to an important extent in northern Europe
this does not happen
and there has always been a production too
fixed housing of the cattle a lot
much higher than that of the
sheep
there were then like France
rather than Germany
all the holland who are trying one
conversion France especially seen
that produces a lot of milk and products
goats but we are still far from
what are the percentages
let’s say about the production of the Mediterranean
how can we at this point look
to realize milk production
of cheese and then do it
then make it become a product
suitable for high consumption also in the others
Italian and European regions
above all obviously strengthening the
cooperativistic system making understanding
to the breeder that within a
system in which he is not alone
producer but also governs that system
can give added value to this
system itself and at the same time
working through institutions
instrumental that unfortunately over the years
part of those incentives are eaten
that the region reserved to the
breeders but through these
this time try to invent instead
or find those solutions for
the growth of the team
company and therefore of the managers that
they go to support the cooperatives and
he farmers and producers
same is obviously not a business
easy
if we think that today in Sardinia of
30 cooperatives present who has a
director or manager of
establishment
we can count them on the firm on the fingers
of a hand therefore with a lot of percentages
much lower than what
takes place in the factories of for example
production of cow’s milk in
wine production factories e
etc
however much has been done in these
in these years in Sardinia we find ourselves
to have cooperatives that have passed
in the decades from the production of some
one million liters of milk
production of a few tens of millions
of liters of milk
this was possible too
through strengthening and the
recognition of the organizations of the
manufacturers
that had to be recognized
need and need a tot of number
of members and a total of liters of milk
you work is a total of millions of
turnover euros
this system has accelerated
at the beginning of the two thousand years it is one
braking in the second the second in the
second part of the decade of the years
two thousand
this reported the dairies to reason
in individual terms no longer no longer
aggregated and also led to have
a big problem
attached to the budget and then col
risk of closure of those companies
that no longer held on the market
not just for a lack of product
quality but also because monoculture
of the Roman pecorino brought to these
companies to depend too much on what
they were the
the market responses respect
respect to this product
so in summary what should be done
what can be done to increase
even more the added value of the
produced milk from sheep’s milk and milk e
milk and goat’s milk
first of all to try to
increase the ability to produce in
quality terms to companies that
of contingent production that of
have a card for each company one
milk production board in
quality that makes the rain objective
the conferment is the attribution
to that producer’s milk through
a precisely quality grid like
already happens in other products and how
happens in some companies but
especially that of trying to
aggregate into three or four large poles
of milk in Sardinia that at that point
they can really challenge inside
of the sector ovi caprino colossi di
other parts of the world
we do not talk about the cooperative
of the other Italian regions because ad
example, Lazio is the second region
for production to three cooperatives are
three operating cooperatives therefore of
shepherds who come together and who
at the end of the year the product of the
industrial systems for which the system of
processing and marketing in
this case is present is present only
in Sardinia as an organization and me
I would like to say what we are
trying to carry on and to
first of all sensitize the fall of
some bells and campanilismi and of
some common places are still tending
today in Sardinia to divide the moment
of production with that of the
transformation and then to try to
play using this term
the breeder as if he were today
of the agricultural association tomorrow
of the copat cooperativistica association
it is not so the breeder is always a
breeder who is a part
of the agricultural association but when in
cooperative and within one
body and a cooperative of
transformation
we must understand that we are not able
through a contingent production
to always manage the price of milk
however, we must understand that the market
has a fundamental role is that we do not
we can do without it
we must understand that the tools
public can no longer be useful to
cover budget holes that businesses
they often manage to have just because
they do not control this production
so in short we believe it is
fundamental I repeat get to one
increasingly balanced production ad
have a defense of diversification
of the product much more pushed and therefore
you should not always depend on that
that the price of the Roman pecorino is the
production of it is also to the
growth of the leading group of the
cooperatives and therefore also of the
farmers and their companies
if we can do this we will succeed
also to make good use of the money that I am
made available by the plan of
rural development 2014 2020
we will probably also succeed
make a qualitative leap to the ovi sector
goat but we must be too
aware that if we continue with the
internal wars within ours
of our territory
we probably will not do a good thing or al
sector or to Sardinia and there
they will wait years of a big crisis seen
the aggressiveness of the market not only of the
animal milk but also milk
vegetable and therefore to the instinctive consumption
lower
of these products for which we must
be aware and aware that you do not
those are simple years
wait but we must be too
aware that until now
the only tool that made that
the sector grew and freed itself
it was that of aggregation
it is cooperative in many cases, be it
industrial in others in others though
we are sure that from there we must
start looking just to put
together all those how to say
developments that the sector has had in
sardegna and all those strengths and
also those points of weakness that in
these in this century of life
we met through
the evolution of our sector
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