SHHEP AL.L. CHAIN: Competitive improvement of the breed-farms of local ovine breeds with a limited diffusion: Alpagota and Lamon sheep.
The Project, through to the implementation of a software (+app) aims at:
- supporting breeders in managing mating plans of sheep-breeds with a limited diffusion in order to help the conservation and the sustainable use of their genetic variation;
- encouraging the process of characterisation of local sheep farms on a geographic basis,
- using additional socio-cultural and environmental indicators for an economic enhancement of related products, with reference to the traceability of the production;
- using/implementing data and information during the process of conversion to the organic production system; developing efficient communication and marketing strategies.
The following activity plan is foreseen:
- preliminary meetings to coordinate all the actors involved
- activation and implementation of the Pilot Project to digitalize the data related to the breeding management (software with the mobile app) with important results linked to mating management, products traceability, biological characteristics, communication and marketing actions
- activation and implementation of informative campaigns related to the data digitalization and the biological breeding system, useful to the fulfillment of the PA.GO
- the participation of the GO to the Rural National Network and to the PEI Agri
- as a final step, outputs delivery.
In mountain environments, and even more in the foothills and high hills of the Alpine arc, often characterized by degraded territories and with obvious environmental criticalities, ruminant farming systems can represent an interesting opportunity for sustainable rural development.
The small ruminants in fact, using the resources available on site, provide for the safeguarding of mountain ecosystems, in particular by maintaining extensively managed grasslands, which have strongly decreased in recent decades in all the rural areas of the country, and which often represent priority habitats for the Natura 2000 Network, offering hospitality to invertebrates and vertebrates, including several amphibians, butterflies and birds which are also priorities.
Furthermore, the breeding of native populations oriented to a traditional and more qualified production allows to obtain typical products that can favor the valorization of particular local microeconomics. The intraspecific genetic variability that distinguishes the different local breeds is already in itself a determining factor in obtaining meat and dairy products "marked" by their own peculiar originality. Add to this the fact that more and more food and wine products seem to draw their "typicality from the image" of the places themselves, from the practices and from the "know-how" that characterizes them, becoming a fundamental vehicle of territorial tourism promotion with the possibility also of feeding niches of local handicrafts (think, for example, of the processing of wool-weaving, felt, natural coloring of the fibers in the case of sheep breeds).
The Project Sheep Al.l. Chain aims at creating a tool for the management and the digital-fruition, at farm level, of the data collected thanks to projects of genetic recovery and the already existing databases, in order to help the breeders of local sheep breeds in Belluno to enhance economically their role of “farmers-custodians", improving the characterisation and the quality of their products. The project, through existing smart-technologies, will implement a software (with a mobile-application) that able to create a CHAIN among all the stakeholders involved in this process of valorisation. In particular, a tool based on web database will be created to support mating plans. This database will be integrated with georeferenced data of sheep farms, with the aim of enhancing the link between local sheep breeds and mountain landscape (ecosystem-services). This represents the ”added value” of the the local production-chain obtained from the two local breeds: Alpagota and Lamon. These data will beutilized for farm management-plans in order to switch into the organic production. Furthemore the data Will be used and tested for communication and marketing purposes. All the steps will be carried on with a participatory approach with an integration form a farm-level to a local -and district- sacle.
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