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Aosta Valley is situated in the
hearth of the alpine chain, an
enclave protected by wheather
perturbations which interest the
external Alps.
The climate is continental and the
few rainfalls favours the brightness
and by consequence the fast increase
of the temperatures in the warm
season; the temperature range are
quite strong.
In a complex orographical region
there isn't a single climatic
tipology but several and different
microclimates depending on the
altimetrical levels of the different
areas of the Valley. The external
massifs are made by crystalline
rocks but there are also plenty of
metamorphic rocks (especially
calcareous schist and green rocks).
About one third of the total area is
covered by permanent meadows and by
mountain pastures which reaches
3000m of altitude.
LOOK AT THE ALTIMETRICAL
PROFILE OF AOSTA VALLEY
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AT THE SUBDIVISION OF AOSTA VALLEY'S
AGRICOLTURAL AREA
The agricultural and rural sector of
Aosta Valley, as all the society's
areas, has suffered from important
transformation. Most part of the
sowable lands has been abandoned to
become permanent meadows used as
foraging for the cattle.
The number of farms has reduced but
the amount of regional cattle hasn't
decreased at the same level because
the average dimension of the
breeding has grown.
Managing bigger farms means to front
a more complex organisation and
having to deal with a fragmented and
dispersed land property represent
the impossibility to adopt the same
agricultural processes on all the
cultivated lots.
Aosta Valley's meadows and pastures
are very heterogeneous, this leads
to a variety in the fertilisation,
to a difference in the frequence of
the grazing which is connected to
the altitude, to the exposure and to
the inclination of the side of the
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