Natural livestock parks: The cores – steam engines of the organic livestock production

The efforts of recovery, modernization and development of the hellenic livestock production dependent mainly on the european subsidies during the last years. The competition from the international markets in combination with the imminent constraints of subsidies along with the need addiction for industrial foodstuff of the hellenic dairy livestock, limited the optimistic prospects of the hellenic livestock husbandry. The appearance and the persisting threat of the nutritional nightmare, the turning and demand of the consumer for healthy products generated new conditions in the market of animal production. The feature of the pastoral hellenic livestock using in a great percentage natural pastures in areas of limited or null pollution reconstituted on the foreground some of the comparative advantages and the favourable prospects of being transformed to organic livestock. This prospect, counted so far on individual efforts, proceeds with very small steps and big time delay compared with the needs of consumption. The collective effort and the making of extended cores of organic livestock in the pattern of the “natural mountainous livestock parks” multiplies the favourable prospects and behaves as a steam engine at the further promotion of the livestock in question, since the trend and satisfaction of the consumer needs for organic products is supported and enforced, his confidence upgrades, the healthy vying between the core producers is possible, the procedures of the relevant certification become more economic, the better, more efficient and economic control is allowed, the livestock farms place in the market of organic products gets strengthened and finally it creates scale economies with all the positive effects because of this fact. The creation of infrastructure in such model cores is an essential motive for the creation of the cores in question.