Italian olive oil, one of the products of our agriculture and our cuisine that have made us famous throughout the world, records a drop in production year after year due to the abandonment of many marginal farmers and generally due to the costs of production that are too high to compete with the good quality oils that other countries, starting with Spain, are producing. The reason lies above all in the failure to modernize our olive groves still largely based on traditional methods and which have not made the transition to intensive cultures and industrialization.
Now a group of entrepreneurs and farmers of Montalto di Castro, on the border between Lazio and Tuscany, has created an innovative initiative, OliviAmo, with the aim of producing high quality oil in super-intensive plants that allow for advanced mechanization with congruent cost savings. In fact, this new technique allows both pruning and harvesting to be done with machines with significant reductions in time. For example, it has been calculated that the cost of the harvest drops from 117 euros per quintal of olives harvested in a traditional system and from 58 euros for intensive cultivation, down to 19 euros for these super-intensive systems. The rapidity of the harvest allows you to immediately take the olives to the mill and work them immediately "cold" in order to make high quality oils.
The business idea is to immediately set about 150 hectares of olive grove in this super-intensive configuration in order to have an abundant production of high quality oil within three to five years and therefore be able to attack the richest foreign markets with an adequate commercial policy. To do this, the OliveOne company offers investors a stake in the share capital through a crowdfunding platform “CrowdFundMe” authorized by CONSOB, with the aim of raising 2 million Euros. The business plan shows that the initiative would offer investors very attractive returns (which could reach 20-30% per annum).
However, it is an investment anchored to real values and not destined to undergo the strong fluctuations of the financial markets. It should also be emphasized that the recent relaunch decree increased the tax deduction from 30 to 50%. for natural persons subscribing shares of innovative startups. The risk of an equity investment is thus greatly reduced. It is therefore a very favorable moment to support the capitalization of new companies and those moving towards strong technological and organizational innovation.
The entrepreneur and promoter of this initiative is Philip Maria Saccucci, who already has numerous other industrial initiatives to his credit and who is now convinced that we are in an extremely favorable moment to modernize a traditional Made in Italy production and set off again to conquer world markets, where our food and our quality of life continue to be highly valued.
Nice initiative, congratulations to them