Croatian chamomile kings come from Virovitica

When you take the Podravska magistrala from Osijek to Koprivnica and look back across the road, you will witness overgrown areas that no one cares about. There are all sorts of things, from the fact that there are only old households left that can do nothing anymore, regardless of all their desires, and their hearts ache. And so you pass part by part and then you reach Virovitica.

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Kad krenete Podravskom magistralom iz Osijeka prema Koprivnici i osvrnete se preko ceste, svjedočit ćete zaraslim površinama za koje se nitko ne brine. Ima svašta, od toga da su ostala samo staračka domaćinstva koja više, bez obzira na sva htijenja, ne mogu učiniti ništa, a srce ih boli.Stigle ih godine, mladi otišli gdje misle da će im biti bolje. I tako prolazite dio po dio i onda stižete do Virovitice.

Pitomača road, landscaped gardens, flowers on every window, neat yards, parked agricultural machinery, but also cars. People have found a meaning here that makes it worthwhile to stay on the land and cultivate it, and all family members live well from that land.

It is clear that they work, there are seasons for everyone, including one breathtaking culture. It is about chamomile, beautiful fields overgrown with this culture, you do not know if it looks more beautiful or you are enchanted by the smell of this medicinal plant.

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Put Pitomače, uređene okućnice, cvijeće na svakom prozoru, uredna dvorišta, parkirani poljoprivredni strojevi, ali i osobni automobili. Ljudi su ovdje našli smisao zbog kojeg vrijedi ostati na zemlji i obrađivati je, a od te zemlje dobro žive svi članovi obitelji.

Jasno je da rade, postoje sezone za sve, pa tako i za jednu kulturu od koje zastaje dah. Riječ je o kamilici, prekrasna polja obrasla ovom kulturom, ne znaš je li ljepše izgledaju ili te očarava miris ove ljekovite biljke.

Almost seven hundred family farms are engaged in this business. This family is just that. Whole families are involved in this business. What is constantly sought after and declared is the ecological production of everything that can be produced that way.

This plant is mostly or mostly organically produced because more and more demanding customers are asking the producers to do so. And customers are where you sell once.

One recommends to the other, the other to the third and so this network expands the path of Italy, Greece, Slovakia ... And so more than ninety percent of everything that is produced goes to the export of this fragrant medicinal plant.

Satisfied producers, satisfied customers.

What is very important in this production is the method of payment. Neat. On time. So you can plan the next planting without endless phone calls to debtors and strong requests to pay you what they took, and you and your family produced it with a lot of effort and love.

Here this is considered normal. You give me goods, I give you money because you earned it. Approximately five thousand hectares of this medicinal plant are also grown in the Podravina fields.

The area of ​​Virovitica and Pitomača is whitewashed by this culture.

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Ovim poslom bavi se gotovo sedamsto obiteljskih gospodarstava. Ovo obiteljskih je upravo to. Cijele obitelji sudjeluju u ovom poslu. Ono što se stalno traži i tako i deklarira je ekološka proizvodnja svega što se može tako proizvesti.

Ova je biljka uglavnom ili u najvećem dijelu ekološki proizvedena jer to od proizvođača traže sve zahtjevniji kupci. A kupci se nalaze tamo gdje jednom prodaš.

Jedan preporuči drugom, drugi trećem i tako se ova mreža širi put Italije, Grčke, Slovačke... I tako u izvoz ove mirisne ljekovite biljke ode više od devedeset posto svega što se proizvede.

Zadovoljni proizvođači, zadovoljni kupci.

Ono što je jako važno u ovoj proizvodnji je i način plaćanja. Uredan. U roku. Tako možeš planirati sljedeću sadnju bez beskonačnih telefoniranja dužnicima i silnih molbi da ti plate ono što su uzeli, a ti i tvoja obitelj ste uz puno truda i ljubavi proizveli.

Ovdje se to smatra normalnim. Ti meni robu, ja tebi novac jer si to zaradio.Približno pet tisuća hektara ove ljekovite biljke uzgaja se i na podravskim poljima.

Područje Virovitice i Pitomače bijeli se od ove kulture.