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TRENTO. A story of resilience, integration and business success. But also passion and love for the land and animals. Agitu Gudeta, the Val dei Mocheni “shepherdess” murdered in Frassilongo, said it in an interview a few years ago: «I came to Italy to study sociology, first in Rome and then in Trento. Back in Ethiopia, I wanted to help my homeland from an agricultural point of view, with a project to organize farmers and lighten their workload through training, education and machinery, guaranteeing them adequate income. After having challenged deregulated industrialization, the arrival of an open-air cement factory, and the phenomenon of “land grabbing” (land grabbing by the state), I started to annoy local officials, I had problems with the government and myself we had to escape, arriving here for the last time six years ago, needing to reinvent my life. First with the goats, then also with the sheep and chickens.
It was 2014 and the woman at that time was working in Val di Gresta.
“I was born in Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa, and I am 36 years old,” he said. “I raise animals in Val di Gresta and with their milk I produce organic cheeses. Early in the morning I am with the animals in Valle San Felice, then I go to work at the Centrale di Mori bar, in the afternoon I go back to looking after the young and then I prepare the cheese in my company “Boran the happy goat” (a small cheese factory with sale in which I made an investment), with milk milked by hand at 600 meters above sea level “
A demanding routine… “Indeed it is. My day starts at 6 am and ends at 2 am. A hard life but full of satisfactions, including having contributed to the environmental recovery of part of the Val di Gresta, with rotating grazing and natural fertilization guaranteed by the animals. Animals that I love and respect a lot ”.
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