The Teramo Agricultural Fair closes already looking at the expansion of the exhibition area for 2025 – Virtù Quotidiane

TERAMO – “A fair in full health and growing rapidly. The committee has grown and the exhibition spaces have grown, we have saturated the river park, unfortunately leaving out 21 companies, including national leaders in the sector. We have already decided to develop other areas to allow exhibitors to have enough space.”

As Antonio Filipponicouncilor for commerce and president of the organizing committee, taking stock of the 33rd Teramo Agricultural Fair which for five days attracted 210 exhibitors from all over Italy and tens of thousands of visitors to the city thanks to a rich program of conferences , exhibition of producers, agricultural vehicles and tools, animals, plants and flowers, food and wine and entertainment.

Rural tourism, sustainable agriculture, microplastics, safety of foods of animal origin, Atria’s black hen, oil, wine and chocolate were some of the topics at the center of the focuses in which sector experts participated.

“This year too we have tried to develop a series of training sessions that touch on the theme of agriculture, applied technologies, the regulatory part with economic-financial opportunities,” added Filipponi.

“The short supply chain becomes fundamental because it allows us to return to the concept of an agricultural company, where the farmer is capable, with his knowledge and mastery, of producing at 360 degrees. He cannot produce everything but he will not create a monoculture that will necessarily become industrial-level”, the professor pointed out Leonardo Seghettiagronomist, speaking at the dialogue “Short supply chain agreement in the middle Vomano”.

“Short supply chain means producing different products typical of a specific territory and, through an agreement between producers, together offering them to the final part of the chain which could be the restaurant industry and, why not, directly to the consumer who can thus taste flavors that perhaps he has forgotten “, he added. “Whoever forgets how to work the land forgets himself, all land is valid, each with its own specific case: there is the anthropological factor capable, at times, of even making up for what nature has not given him”.

For her part, the chef used local legumes and a pasta produced by a Teramo farm Patrizia Corradetti to prepare a soup with chickpeas, while Giuseppe Ialonardi, delegate of the Fisar sommeliers, conducted a tasting of liqueurs produced by Abruzzo companies. The Fic chefs were also involved: “The Fair is an important moment to be exploited for the chef who is the one who transmits the territory and his expressions to the end user”, said the provincial president Marta Di Marcoberardinowho led the large patrol of chefs involved in the numerous cooking shows.

The Agricultural Fair was, as always, a party, enriched by the music which this year was in an itinerant form, every day from 5pm to 7pm, with the groups Malafè Danza, Laccio d’Ampre, the Maccabbari, the Tribù di Farindola and Ma Tru. As part of the operational fair, the Teramo Children Aps association also proposed eco-pedagogical workshops and readings on good environmental practices for children aged 6 to 12.

The fair committee is made up of Izs Teramo, ASL Teramo, University of Teramo, Coldiretti Teramo, Cia L’Aquila Teramo, Polo Agrario Teramo, Dmc Gran Sasso Laga, Gal Terreverdi Teramane, Gal Abruzzo, Fisar Teramo, Its Teramo, Its Academy, and Order of Agronomists and Forestry Doctors and then Municipality, Gran Sasso Chamber of Commerce of Italy and Bim which contributed financially and with the sponsorship of Teramani Builders.

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