Confagricoltura Veneto has announced a change at the top of the association: Renzo Cavestrofrom Padua, will replace Massimo Chiarelli as the new director. Chiarelli will return to devote himself full time to the management of Confagricoltura Rovigo. The handover is scheduled for July 1 at the regional headquarters of the organization in via Monteverdi in Venice Mestre.
Cavestro, 63 years old, originally from Anguillara Veneta, has a degree in Agriculture and has long experience as the historic director of Confagricoltura Padova. “I thank Massimo Chiarelli for the excellent work done in recent years – he underlines Cavestro -. A challenging but very stimulating task awaits me. I thank the president Lodovico Giustiniani and the entire Council of Confagricoltura Veneto for the trust placed in me. I hope not to disappoint expectations, with the awareness that for the agricultural sector the regional context constitutes an important reference for many policies: from the use of European funds for rural development to the protection of the territory and the environment; from work to training”.
Confagricoltura associates 13,000 agricultural businesses in the Veneto, “in which – he explains Cavestro – a new class of competent and advanced agricultural entrepreneurs is emerging, including many young people and women interested in innovation and sustainability. It is on these two fronts, innovation and sustainability, that the association will have to provide answers to its members, collaborating with bodies and institutions: the Region first and foremost, the regional payment agency Avepa, the reclamation consortia, the and the agri-food system. First objective: work to simplify the lives of agricultural businesses and provide them with more tools to invest and grow”.
