TERRE DI TARTUFI – TRUFFLE LANDS
The safeguarding of the environment is now a worldwide well-known requirement, as an undeniable priority among the necessary
acts revolved to the survival
of living-beings.
The main reasons of such a critic situation must be found in the eternal conflict between human needs and
exploitations of the available natural resources, used
to improve the life conditions of an ever increasing number of people and supporting the higher costs in terms
of exhaustion of non-renewable resources, and
of levels of pollution that represent a now-known danger to the health of human-beings.
From here on, the need of ?nding sustainable ecological ways of overcoming this problem, which will bring more
welfare to population. For a example new
projects, with ambitious but very promising goals, are being worked out to guarantee the safeguard and conservation
of the agricultural environment and to
facilitate the state of biodiversity.
One of these touches our territory very closely,
in the area of Monferrato-Langhe-Roero and concerns a particular natural resource: the white-Alba truffle (Tuber
magnatum pico). A product , which really characterises the local gastronomical tradition and it is a strong
tool for constructive action to defend the agricultural
territory and as a shuttle-cock of development in various areas of economical and turistic activities.
The main goal of the Terre di tartufi – Truffle Lands association is to develop an ecological sustainable
project to save a woody agricultural environment, which
is still present in our region but risking to be lost or to become irrelevant, without the proper
safeguarding management. Conservation, development and
increase of the tartufaie of our territory mean the rescue of the woods,
and trees represent an irreplaceable richness for the safeguarding of the environment,
where we live.
The tree is a fundamental living-being for the meteorological phenomena, climate improvement,
production of useful materials used in many activities and for
maintaining the biodiversity of the ecosystem.
A tree absorbs nearly ten kilograms of carbon-dioxide during its lifetime,transforming it into oxygen.
The esteemed white tru?e is the earth’s most precious and mysterious product.
However, though a great number of scientific progress in the last few years have helped us to
know new aspects of its biology and ecology, it is still not possible to cultivate. The safeguarding and the improvement of the natural production areas of the esteemed white truffle, therefore,
represents the only approach to safeguard and increase the production.