Mario Boggio
Cortereggio Canavese Piattella Bean
Mario Boggio was born in 1961. He was interviewed in 2013.
Mario is an agronomist and a farmer. He describes the history of the cultivation of Piattella over the past decades. During the Twentieth century its cultivation for commercial purposes was abandoned in the village. However, in 1981, Mario Boggio, then a college student, donated a few kilograms of this bean to the germplasm bank at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Turin.
Due to this far-sighted initiative, after thirty years it has been possible to recover the beans and revitalize the cultivation. Since 2010 the cultivation is also a Slow Food Presidium .
In the interview Mario Boggio addresses numerous aspects about the current difficulties in the cultivation of the bean and the new challanges that the recovery of the cultivation of Piattella after thirty years has opened to the farmers.
Video table of contents
- An agronomist involved in the cultivation of the Piattella bean
- History of the Piattella bean: the germplasm bank
- Climate and farming changes
- Inconvenienti nella coltivazione della Piattella con il mais
- The characteristics of the Piattella bean
- The Piattella bean comes from Mexico
- Sciences help the farmers in fighting the new pests
- Making a presidium: The production regulation of Piattella bean
- Sciences and technology to improve the cultivation
- Making a presidium: cooperation
- The culturvation of the bean: the use of corn and cane
- Making a presidium: The study of the environment
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: San Giorgio Canavese
District: TO
Suburb: Cortereggio
Altitude: 245m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortereggio
Urls: Scheda Piattella canavesana di Cortereggio - Sito Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità , Sito Associazione Piattella canavesana di Cortereggio, Sito dedicato alla storia e alle tradizioni di Cortereggio, Cortereggio Canavese Piattella Bean - The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
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Mario Boggio
Date of birth: 03-31-1961
City: San Giorgio Canavese
School: University
Profession: Farmer
Languages: Italiano
Bibliography:
Aa.Vv. (2012), Guida ai Presìdi Slow Food: per scoprire i prodotti che raccontano l’Italia, le osterie che li cucinano, mangiare e dormire dai produttori, Bra, Slow Food editore.
Belletti P., Nada E. (1995), Variabilità isoenzimatica in fagiolo comune (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), "Italus Hortus", vol. II, n. 3, pp. 39-46.
Piccinino F. (2013), Una gran Piattella, in “Barolo&Co.”, XXXI, n. 1, pp. 104-105.
Sitography:
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 26-06-2013
