The Region of Attica is located at the central part of the country. It contains a territory of 3,808 km2 and covers 2.9% of the total territory of Greece. It is based in Athens, the Greek capital.
Attica, apart from its ancient monuments and history, is a region displaying rare natural beauty and a wonderful climate, suitable for the nourishing of plants that, although they do not even grow in many other places, bear fruit here. Land and sea in this place provide us with all kinds of goods. As Xenophon said, “whatever goods Gods have to offer people in each season, here it all starts to grow very early and ceases to grow very late”.
Nowadays, the Regional Units of Western and Eastern Attica, the islands of the Region and the area of Trizinia present significant employment rates in their primary sector. Dynamic sectors include the ones of floriculture, horticulture, viticulture, as well as fisheries and aquaculture.
Greenhouse units operate in the area of Western Attica, while viticulture, olive tree farming and horticulture are being developed. In Eastern Attica, viticulture, olive tree farming, greenhouse, horticultural and tree growing units, as well as large-scale plantations, are dominant. Finally, in the island area, olive oil, grapes / wine, PDO pistachios from the island of Aegina, rusks from the island of Kythira, horticultural, floricultural, aromatic products are produced.
Livestock farming in the Region of Attica is characterized by significant numbers of poultry farming and livestock breeding units.
The “Basket of the Region of Attica” includes garden and greenhouse gardening products, wine, floriculture products, pistachios, honey, sheep and goat milk and meat products, as well as traditional products, PDO Feta, figs from Vravrona, olive oil, honey from Trizinia and Kythira.
As far as the processing of agricultural and livestock products is concerned, Attica is the area of activity of one of the 4 major companies in the sector of pasta, 8% of the authorized olive oil standardizers, 4 out of 25 drying units of aromatic and medicinal plants, as well as of a large number of fresh – fruit – and – vegetables -packing plants, wineries, wine packing units and of other units of processing or standardizing herbal products.
There are also 7 slaughterhouses, 22 honey manufacturers with export activity, a large number of egg packing centres (mainly in Western Attica) and an even greater number of meat processing units with export activity.
