AIA - Associazione Italiana Allevatori (The Italian Breeders Association)

The Italian Breeders Association (AIA) was founded in Rome on August 20, 1944 with the aim of reviving the national livestock sector devastated by World War II. It has been recognised as an entity of public-interest by Presidential Decree n. 1051 on October 27, 1950. Through the years, AIA has rapidly grown its initial structure and has branched nationwide across the Italian territory, supporting each livestock sector and developing a wide range of supportive services to farmers, which have contributed to enhance the Italian animal husbandry and to make it one the most advanced world-wide.

AIA’s role is described in Article 3 of the Statute, that reads:
The association has a technical scope whose intent is to implement all the initiatives that can usefully contribute to ameliorate the livestock sector and to increase a more efficient exploitation of the products derived from it.