AGRICOLA ABOVE – HERDADE DAS DEFESINHAS
ELVAS – ALENTEJO – PORTUGAL
Manuel Die and his family acquired the estate in the year 2000 (Elvas, Alentejo, Portugal). After more than a decade following the techniques agroganaderas conventional, in the year 2013 resulted in a revised if the management was correct due to the loss of fertility and life in general that I was turning to his farm.
“I turned 50 years old and one becomes thoughtful for some reason and then I did an economic analysis: there is a lack of profitability, tremendous dependency on external inputs, externalities, call it whatever you want; subsidies; (animal feed, chemicals), energy...etc, disappointment in the daily work as well as the dependency of having to sell the industrial market, which causes a lot of stress”
By coincidence, in that year, saw the talk TED “As regenerate the deserts” of Allan Savory and made you reflect to the point of radical change to the handling and management of your farm.
Currently implements the Management Holistic with more than 500 head of cattle with spectacular results at the level of production and activation of the ecosystem processes.
Defesinhas has become demonstrative farm of aleJAB Institute (Savory), in which there are many Management courses Holistic.
