Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly

Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

Geography
The village of Charente-Maritime is at the extreme northeast of the Département, 3 km from the Département of Deux-Sèvres (79) and the village of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, and 10 km from Surgères, the seat of the canton.

Places and monuments

 * Church of St Paul, built in roughcast limestone in 1871, to replace two older churches that had been ruined by the wars that ravaged the region.
 * The commune also has a war memorial, near the Church of St Paul.

Economy
The commune is home to the Magernaud site of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), specialising in the improvement of aviculture (bird farming), heliciculture (snail farming) and apiculture (beekeeping). This site also houses an outpost of GEVES, the Groupe d'étude et de contrôle des variétés et des semences ("Group for the study and control of varieties and seeds"), a seedbank and plant selection institution which works on the homologation of new vegetable varieties. It collaborates also with ARVALIS - Institut du végétal ("ARVALIS - Institute of Vegetation").