Spotlight on Minimum Tillage

This clip features the testimony by farmer Tonino Congiu, who tills the land in Tuscany, Italy. It brings the spotlight on minimum tillage, one of the agro-ecological practices promoted by Mara-Mediterra.

Tonino Congiu is the owner of the Baccoleno farm, located in the province of Siena, Tuscany (Central Italy). As is typical in the area, which is suitable for cereals, Tonino alternates the cultivation of durum wheat, oats and barley with soil improving crops such as field beans and clover. In recent years, he has transitioned from conventional farming to conservation agriculture, and he soon realized the numerous advantages of this approach.

Watch the farmer’s testimony with subtitles in either English, French, Arabic, Greek or Turkish, which are the working languages in Mara-Mediterra’s hotspots of land and water degradation.

The testimonial forms part of an initial set of real-life stories of working with Nature-based Solutions by farmers in Italy, Greece and Malta.