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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-766/annex-II/division-SINGLE/division-5/division-5.3/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2012/766",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 766/2012 of 24 July 2012 approving minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications [Patata di Bologna (PDO)]",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-766",
  "path": "annex/II/division/SINGLE/division/5/division/5.3/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Historical and cultural references",
  "text": "Potato-growing spread in the Province of Bologna in the early nineteenth century, promoted in particular by the agronomist Pietro Maria Bignami, who introduced the potato to farmers. Alongside its use as animal feed, it found its way onto the table.\nFrom the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth century various scholars described the positive and negative points of the potato, but it was particularly as a result of the work of Contri, a circular of the Papal Legate Cardinal Opizzoni (1817) and a practical description of potato-growing by Benni that the area devoted to potato-growing saw a notable increase.\nMention should also be made of the works of Berti-Pichat and Bignardi on potato-growing in the Province of Bologna, published in the second half of the nineteenth century. By 1900, cultivation of this crop had fulfilled its potential and had become for the whole Province, from the plain to the hills and mountains, an important source of revenue for the local rural economy. A whole branch of the economy grew up around the potato and modern storage and marketing structures adapted to the efficient handling of the product were developed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/766/annex/II/division/SINGLE/division/5/division/5.3/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:15.344963+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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