Armani Tests Sustainable Cotton Production in Italy

Luxury fashion house Armani Group has started an experimental agroforestry plantation in southern Italy to test new ways to produce cotton sustainably, it said on Monday.

Armani said cotton planting started last month over one hectare of land — to be expanded to five hectares — in the southern region of Apulia.

Agroforestry is a land-use system that plants trees in and around crop and pastureland.

“Over five years, this farm site will be…