Editing Piedmont (section)

===Agriculture===
[[File:The rice fields near Vercelli.jpg|thumb|Rice fields between [[Novara]] and [[Vercelli]]]]

Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region. The main agricultural products in Piedmont are [[cereals]], including [[rice]], representing more than 10% of national production, [[maize]], [[grape]]s for [[wine]]-making, [[fruit]] and [[milk]].<ref name="europa1">{{cite web |url=http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc1_eco.htm |title=Eurostat |work=Europa (web portal) |access-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210184406/http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc1_eco.htm |archive-date=10 February 2009}}</ref> With more than 800,000 head of cattle in 2000, livestock production accounts for half of total agricultural production in Piedmont.

[[Piemonte (wine)|Piedmont]] is one of the great winegrowing regions in Italy. More than half of its {{convert|700|km2|acre|abbr=on}} of vineyards are registered with [[Denominazione di Origine Controllata|DOC]] designations. It produces prestigious wines as [[Barolo]] and [[Barbaresco]] from the [[Langhe]] near [[Alba (CN)|Alba]], and the [[Moscato d'Asti]] and sparkling [[Asti (wine)|Asti]] from the vineyards around [[Asti]]. The city of Asti is about {{convert|55|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River and is one of the most important centres of [[Montferrat]], one of the best known Italian wine districts in the world, declared officially on 22 June 2014 a UNESCO World Heritage site.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1390|title=Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato|first=UNESCO World Heritage|last=Centre}}</ref> Indigenous grape varieties include [[Nebbiolo]], [[Barbera]], [[Dolcetto]], [[Freisa]], [[Grignolino]] and [[Brachetto]].