2024-06-14 05:31:11
An academic go to to Italy, with the participation of 17 remaining yr college students and two chaperones, was organized, for the third consecutive yr, by the SAEK Dairy College of Ioannina, profiting from the accreditation obtained by ELGO DIMITRA from the State Scholarship Basis/Nationwide Coordination Unit for the Erasmus+ program (IKY.).
The Dairy College group was hosted by AgenForm Consorzio within the Piedmont area and obtained a heat welcome from the mayor of town of Moretta and from the president, director and executives of AgenForm.
The objects of the tutorial go to, which lasted a complete of 13 days, had been Italian cheeses and gelato, contact with farms that produce their very own milk merchandise and with advertising and agritourism actions with a view to derive concepts and practices, the expertise of the joint ventures and cooperatives of the PDO and different conventional cheeses of Italy and attending to know the tradition and trendy lifestyle of this nation.
Extra particularly, the scholars attended lessons on the manufacturing technique of Italian cheeses reminiscent of Mozzarella from cow and buffalo milk, Gorgonzola, Pecorino, Ricotta and the well-known Italian gelato. The programs included theoretical educating and college students’ sensible coaching in Agenform’s academic cheese manufacturing unit.
Along with the schooling in cheese making, the members made academic visits to livestock enterprises with personal manufacturing of merchandise and sale to the patron. The managers of those companies connect nice significance to the well-being of the animals they elevate, sheep, goats, cows, buffaloes, and to free grazing the place attainable, as a result of that’s the place they base the top quality traits and the particular style of the merchandise they produce, aiming primarily on the high quality as an alternative of amount. Usually, comparable companies could be discovered, strategically positioned close to vacationer locations, even in Nationwide Parks.
A particular expertise was the go to to one of many corporations that produce the well-known Italian PDO Grana Padano cheese. Along with the traits and manufacturing phases of this distinctive cheese, the officers referred to the strict observance and supervision of the situations required by the laws, such because the geographical space, the food regimen of the cows from which the milk comes, the scale and weight of the of heads, the attribute labeling to soundly defend this PDO cheese from imitations, primarily the accountability of the Consortium for the Safety of Grana Padano Cheese.
Within the area of mechanical gear, the main focus was on the go to to the Italian cheese manufacturing unit gear manufacturing firm TAS SRL, within the context of which a presentation was made from the corporate’s merchandise, which exports to international locations world wide and in Greece, of the modern technological functions they suggest for the cheese manufacturing unit sector in addition to trendy options reminiscent of prefabricated cheese factories.
For concepts on retail instructions, the group visited a well being meals enterprise that sells choose meals from small native producers, recent and scrumptious, in addition to environmentally pleasant detergents and private care merchandise, the truth is most meals and merchandise they’re bought in bulk and the client makes use of his personal packaging.
A go to to the lined everlasting open-air market gave everybody the chance to see the richness of the area’s cheeses, since many of the sellers inspired the client to try to knowledgeable him concerning the particular traits, the kind of milk, the manufacturing space, the age, and so forth. .a.
Along with cheese pickings and academic visits, there was time for cultural and vacationer experiences, within the Cuneo space, in neighboring Turin and in Bergamo.