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Italian farm produces 25 tons of caviar annually

Tuesday, 12 July 2016 1:45 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 1:46 AM ]

The farm was opened in the late 1970s, in the small town of Calvisano, east of Milan, when a steelmaker started breeding fish in the hot water from his works. It now produces some 25 tons of caviar a year.

Caviar is one of the most luxurious and expensive food to mankind. There are a number of farms around the world that produce this delicacy. Some of the farms are in Russia and Caspian Sea countries. But did you know that the world’s largest caviar farm is indeed in northern Italy?

Known as the ‘Agroittica Lombarda,’ this farm is the largest in Europe to breed white sturgeon fish. This places the company at the top of worldwide caviar production.

The farm now produces 25 tons of the delicacy each year. In total, seven species of sturgeon are bred in the farm’s aquaculture tanks. The farm raises the sturgeons to produce caviar and the meat. At the same time, they protect the species for the next generations.

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