Mafia Organisations, silence in agriculture

Yes, he was a good person, very cheerful, he always said hello... that's how some people from Castelvetrano (Italian town) replied, pretending not to know. The farm manager arrested after 30 years of absconding while being accompanied to the clinic by a farmer, cultivated olive trees, gave oil and other farm specialities, weaving relationships and links and exercising his power between Sicily and the continent.

The production chain of agromafias in the agri-food sector concerns the use of illegal pesticides in crops, the disposal of toxic substances in the environment, counterfeiting of foodstuffs, control over the sale of products in fruit and vegetable markets, fraud, threats and intimidation, usury, extortion, racketeering, payoff, illegal recruitment. And much more.

Business in agriculture is worth billions and attracts various types of organisations, private and public, not necessarily criminal in nature.
From North to South, the moral code of the ringleaders certainly does not set the natural rules and practices of the art of farming.

We believe that cultivation should be the result of a harmonious relationship with plants, a respectful participation in their growth and development. One must approach plants with wonder and kindness, as they nourish and sustain our lives.
Instead, in agriculture, we see exploitation, arrogance, ignorance. The more the insiders take on significant positions in the occult organigram of agrochemical companies, the more they claim to know about the plant realm and the right cultivation criteria; they proclaim themselves to be gurus while practising abuses of all kinds, but they are poor chemical peddlers: they operate by luring farmers to whom they impart agronomic advice that sounds like irreversible laws; they run their farms, indoctrinate their student children, poison their soils and make the plants, forced to take the substances, dependent on the chemicals, thereby compromising their harvests.

This is how conniving people and accomplices openly influence the agricultural supply chain.

So let us not complain about ineffective choices and poor results. This is how the agricultural mafia grows.