Hi! My name is Francesco and I’m 52. I spent a long period working as a veterinarian in several different African countries, in Southern and Central America and also many countries of Far and Near Est, but some years ago I came back in Italy. Since 1995 I have been working here in Villafranca as a farmer. My main activities are cultivating a kiwi plantation, breeding ostriches and working as ostrich production and health consuktant, but I am a journalist, and a writer too.
Two years ago, together with Ali, my Morocco partner, I started working on an ostrich farm near Agadir. Nowadays, people in Morocco are more interested than in Italy to this kind of big birds. Recently we decided to raise also quails and rabbits.
Last winter, Elettra revealed me how Morocco desert is plenty of good marble. In fact, being an architect, she has a great experience about any kind of hard and resistant material. Thanks to her suggestions, last March we bougth some quarries in southern Morocco and together with four marble companies from Verona, we are now extracting and processing marble of five different colors: grey-blue; blue-violet; black; green and red-brown.
Few months ago, I added another activity to the previous ones: energy. I got an idea after seeing how upset was Nadira, (my 22 years old secretary who is really very keen on languages), because of a sudden blackout that happened in my office during an important business meeting. Only ten or twenty years ago I would have never cared about lack of energy, but now, it is time to provide feasible solutions to this problem. In fact, as Nadira says, even the best hardware, without energy it is absolutely useless. Costantino (who has a great experience in energy business) and Antonio, although he is young, are supporting on about the improvement of alternative energy. Unfortunately, my 16 years old son Hadrien, doesn’t care at all about renewable energy. Ah, what unconscious is youth!
So, some weeks ago I started a new company wich has the aim to sell, install and maintain eolic and photovoltaic systems.
In short, after two years of efforts, it seems that everything is going swimmingly: all over Morocco people are interested in the quality of our birds; nice and resistant marbles are exported to Italy and are fullfilling all demands of exigent people such as Elettra. Nadira is quite satisfied too with renewable energy, and now in her office the hardware day and night works very well.
