Altera Vita – AGRICULTURE

 ALTERA VITA aims at agricultural production through the cooperative orientation of aromatic and medicinal plants of our country, packaging, processing of local and traditional products and dishes, self-produced products with the promotion of cottage industry, enabling young or old farmers to discover an added value in their income. The exploitation of privately owned agricultural land of members of the Cooperative has already begun, and the planting of aromatic plants such as sage, thyme,  rosemary, oregano, for the production, processing, and promotion of local products of Syros.

ALTERA VITA has been registered since June 2017, as a Legal Entity, in the Register of farmers and agricultural holdings of the Ministry of Agriculture. Our goal is the creation of a Multifunctional productive visitable farm, for teachers' programs related to sustainability, the environment, prevention, and health promotion.

Multifunctional agriculture is favored by EU rural policy and considered as a tool for integrated and sustainable rural development. Recent approaches to defining the multifunctional practices of rural farm households (different from those of ‘conventional’ agriculture) according to the use of their resources result in three dimensions: deepening, broadening, and regrounding.

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