The Aproli-Aifo olive oil supply chain project is ready to take off

It will be able to develop total investments for 50 million euro il olive oil chain project which will be presented next Friday in Canosa di Puglia, with proposing subject Open them (OP – Organization of recognized agricultural producers, with 1.300 members and 6 hectares of olive groves between the provinces of Bari and Bat) in collaboration with AIFO (Italian Association of Oil Mills).
A supply chain project – with the scientific support of Crea and Catholic University – which will make sustainability its central point, through the ISCC Plus sustainability certification, one of the most sought after standards by large retailers. Compliance with the procedures will be guaranteed byCSQA certifying body and will concern all companies in the primary sector and agro-industry who wish to be involved. The project will compete in the Pnrr's agri-food supply chain tender which, as known, has a total budget of 1,5 billion (from 4 to 50 million the funding for each project). The public contribution it varies from 40 to 50% for the expenses that the companies involved in each project will carry out, starting from a minimum investment of 100 thousand euros for interventions related to primary production e of 400 thousand euros for those related to processing and marketing. For the former, investments are supported to create new olive groves, to construct or modernize rural buildings, to purchase machinery, for irrigation or energy systems. For agro-industrial companies, the contribution covers all structures, plants, machinery and equipment.
The final goal will be to obtain a label of sustainable oil that Aproli and Aifo will promote within the availability that the Pnrr itself provides for the promotion, with a contribution of 100% of the expenses.
"Attthrough this initiative – he underlined the director of Aproli, Carmen Loverde (in the picture) – we want to start a path of investments compatible with 360-degree sustainability, therefore not only environmental, but also ethical and social. A concrete example: the correct paycheck of the worker who works in the field for farms”.
“It is a project that differs precisely in terms of sustainability – he added the president of Aifo, Elia Pellegrino (in the picture) – which sees mills from as many as 7 regions already involved and which aspires to another ambitious goal: to obtain certification with a CSQA standard which could also represent a specific reference model for oil in the future”.