Frantoio Oleario Pierluigi Presciuttini

My name is Pierluigi Presciuttini and I grew up among the olive trees and in the family oil mill. The passion for these wonderful plants prompted me to undertake with dedication and stubbornness the search for continuous agronomic improvements in the management of olive groves, starting from polyconic pot cultivation up to the instruments for indicating the correct harvest period, always favoring sustainable cultivation and natural and excluding the use of harmful chemicals , in the belief that the natural quality of the product must always be in the first place.

I currently manage around 3000 plants and almost all of them have been recovered from abandonment in the past 4 years. Many cultivars are from Canino, many other mills and others Leccino and Moraiolo .
With the aim of producing an absolutely extraordinary Oil, they are always looking for abandoned olive groves to be recovered. I am particularly attracted to plants that have been far away from man for a long time as they are the best in terms of production quality and rusticity of habit.

The recovery of abandoned fieldsA conservative estimate identifies about 100,000 abandoned plants in my territory that no one has cared for and managed for years. Well one of my goals is to recover as many of these plants as possible, bringing them back into production and taking care of all aspects of the supply chain, from pruning to fertilization and harvesting and processing of fruits . It is a very serious commitment and a long term project in which I have the pleasure of investing a lot of resources, because I am firmly convinced that Italy still has something important to say in world quality olive growing. I had the honor of telling my story onRai1 during the broadcast Uno Mattina In Famiglia and on RaiNews 24 for the Mordi e Fuggi column .