Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 23/3/2023 - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
C 107/76
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
23.3.2023
The local geography facilitates cultivation as it provides optimal environmental conditions and, in particular, the temperate, dry climate of the coastal strip enable optimum general plant health to be maintained.
The area in which Carota Novella di Ispica is grown is generally free from excessive temperature drops, excessive rain and aridity. It has been shown that the temperatures recorded in the area favour very intense colouring, which is also to some extent a result of the amount of light from which the territory benefits between September and March, the very regular conformation and the optimisation of levels of sugar, beta carotene and mineral salt content which, considering the time of harvest, are a further characteristic feature of the Carota Novella di Ispica. The land further complies with the requirements for growing, which ideally calls for medium soils tending towards loose, a non-coarse soil skeleton, well provided with nutritive elements, good depth and freshness characteristics, but is also feasible in soils tending towards sandy as long as they are supported by adequate fertilisation and irrigation.
These are the conditions that have led to the success of the Carota di Ispica. Indeed, old producers remember that European importers claimed to be able to recognise a load of Carota Novella di Ispica immediately upon opening the transport wagon thanks to the specific and intense aroma which developed.
The first documents recording Ispica carrot cultivation date back to 1955, followed a few years later by the first records of its being exported. Since the 1950s, Ispica carrot growing has extended gradually to cover the area defined in point 4, due on the one hand to the agricultural phenomenon of soil fatigue but, on the other, to the products great commercial success on national and foreign markets. Important evidence is provided by Pina Avvedutos 1972
publication La Coltivazione della Carota ad Ispica Cultivation of the Ispica carrot. On the subject of the rapid expansion of Ispica carrot growing, the author writes, Obviously, the rapid spread in cultivation of the new product was favoured by the ease of marketing it, since it was accepted and sought after by all national and international markets for its intrinsic merits Our carrot was preferred on account of its early availability, quality in terms of shape size, organoleptic properties colour, flavour, chemical properties carotene and glucose rich.
Reference to publication of the product specification The Ministry launched the national opposition procedure with the publication of the amendment application regarding Carota Novella di Ispica Protected Geographical Indication in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic No 159 of 9 July 2022.
The full text of the product specification is available on the following website:
https www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/3343
