In the realm of agriculture, intertwined with family values and age-old traditions, lies the essential element of innovation. Through blending traditional practices with modern techniques, the agricultural sector continues to evolve and thrive, ensuring sustainability for generations to come.
DE MARIA, AGRICULTURAL COMPANY, MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY
“The history of our company is a collage of images full of impressions and fleeting moments”
“Our home is the “terroir”...
The terroir is a delimited geographical space where a human community has built, over the course of history, a collective intellectual knowledge of production, based on a system of interactions between a physical and biological environment and a set of human factors, within which the socio-technical itineraries brought into play reveal originality, give a typicality and generate a reputation, for a product originating from this terroir.”
The olive tree is traditionally grown in the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the 30th to the 45th parallel North. This plant thrives in warm-temperate climates, although excessive heat and drought can lower its productivity and even prove fatal in extreme cases. Globally, close to one billion olive trees are spread across approximately 11 million hectares, with 95% concentrated in the Mediterranean region. With the potential to live for thousands of years under favorable conditions, the olive tree yields a variety of cultivars, each possessing distinct genetic and morphological traits. In Sicily, popular cultivars include Biancolilla, Ogliarola messinese, Cerasuola, Nocellara del Belice, Moresca, Nocellara etnea, Santagatese, and Tonda iblea. Over the past three decades, our company has predominantly planted Biancolilla and Cerasuola cultivars, commonly found in the provinces of Trapani and Palermo.
