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Some of the olive groves have an ancient structure with wide format, thickened afterwards, some plants are up to 800 years old; other have modern structure because they are more recent. The main “cultivar” is the mythical “Tonda Iblea", an ancient variety with twofold attitude and self-steril, called "Cetrale"; it produces the most valuable and perfumed oil. There are also other cultivar as the "Moresca", the " Nocellara messinese" called "Verdese" and modern plants of "Carolea"; these varieties act mostly as pollinators. The farm has followed the so-called “biological farming" for ten years therefore pesticides, fertilizers and anything potentially injurious to the nature and the man are put aside. All the olive grove can be watered by special devices located near the trees. The water is drawn from the farm well. The olive grove is manured plughing in compost or dung. The average height of the olive grove is about 350 meters above sea level, nights are cool and windy even in summer. At this height the Dacus oleae attacks are rare and tolerable. The sheets of the cadastral maps are 38-39-76-55 in the cadastre of Chiaramonte Gulfi with all the relative olive grove parcels enrolled in the roll of the olive groves of the Chamber of Commerce of Ragusa. The entire farm is in the sub-zone "Gulfi" of the DOP "Monti Iblei".

 

 

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