project promoted by friuli venezia giulia region l.r. n. 26/05 art. 17
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Project promoted by Friuli Venezia Giulia Region L.R. n. 26/05 art. 17
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca per la Montagna
Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo Rurale
Università di Udine – Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti
Ispettorato Ripartimentale delle Foreste di Udine – Vivaio Forestale di Pradandons
Partners
Challenges
The project aim was to enhance the development of new productive pathways for the biological cultivations of spontaneous plants.
The purposes were the production of quality products and the environmental tutelage, employing biological agriculture techniques. The transformation and marketing of the products were studied to give a possibility of income integration for the stakeholders and the valorisation of agritourism offer in the area where plant were cultivated and sold.
The overall objectives were the definition of an innovative spreading model and the support the competitiveness of local agriculture. An important goal was to relaunch the horticultural compartment, stimulating the rural tourism and the joint among agricultural production, the territory, the environmental and the richness of our landscape.
Wild plants cultivation (increasing
supply)
Experimental plots
Spread of results
New processing techniques
Establishing yield and
gastronomy relationship
CirMont Ersa
University Irf
CirMont Ersa
University
CirMont
Ersa
CirMont Ersa
University Irf
Set up of organic farming
techniques
Integration of farm income
Enhancing of farms
holidays
Environment preservation
BioInnovErbe is:
• Test innovative techniques for organic farming• Diversification of yields• Recovery of marginal areas• Profit increase
• Enhancement of local gastronomy• Quality certification of production line
• Conservation of biodiversity• Monitor of wild plants habitats
• Improvement of utilities • Increase of promotional activities • Implementation of hiking trail and gastronomic routes
Interesting areas
Research and experimental activities
The stakeholders (farmers, producers, commercial partners, etc.) were supported by the technical cooperation of the institutional partners.
The project was concluded in 3 years (2008-2010).
The experimental activities were concentrated on the investigation on the best cultural agriculture biological techniques for different species. The plants were chosen considering their productive potentiality and their commercial value.
The steps were:• seed pick up; • comparison between different varieties and ecotypes;• acknowledgment on the spontaneous plants, historical information
about their harvest and utilisation (interviews, questionnaires, etc.)• cultivation trials in 8 fields, to individuate the best results in terms of
productivity, phytosanitary condition and final product quality;• experimentation of seed reproduction, agamic propagation and in
vitrum, culture;• chemical analysis of the field and nutritional analysis on the products; • creation of a data bank on the nutritional characteristics of the plants;• studies on the best modalities of harvest, of conservation and
transformation of the plants;• cooking tests;• knowledge transfer to the farms; • economical analysis of this productive chain; • organisation of conferences, eno-gastronomic events, guided visits to
the experimental fields, publication of a book and practical schedules of cultivation.
Autochtonus Species of the project
COMUN NOME LATIN NOME FRIULAN NOME
Radicchio di monte o Lattuga alpina Blow Sow Thistle
Cicerbita alpine Radìc (lidrìc) di mont
Asparago selvatico o spinoso Sharp-leaved Asparagus
Asparagus acutifolius Sparc salvadi
Pungitopo Butcher’s Broom
Ruscus aculeatus Ruscli, Rusticions
Levistico o Sedano di montagna Lovage
Levisticum officinale Selino di montagne
Silene Bladder Campion
Silene cucubalus Sclopìt
Valerianella Corn Salad
Valerianella olitoria Argielùt
Spirea Goat’s Beard
Spirea Aruncus Penàc
Buon Enrico Good King Henry
Chenopodium bonus henricus L. Jarbe de farine
Experimental fieldsSite Altitude (a.s.l.) Sup. (m2) Species
Piani di Vâs 1400 500 Cicerbita alpina
Monte Arvenis 1700 100 Cicerbita alpina
Chenopodium bonus henricus
Aruncus dioicus
Levisticum officinale
Tramonti di sopra 150 Cicerbita alpina
Chenopodium bonus henricus
Aruncus dioicus
Silene vulgaris
Stevenà di Caneva 300 Chenopodium bonus henricus
Silene vulgaris
Tarcento 800 Chenopodium bonus henricus
Aruncus dioicus
Silene vulgaris
Levisticum officinale
Curiedi 780 200 Cicerbita alpina
Chenopodium bonus henricus
Aruncus dioicus
Levisticum officinale
Aurisina 100 Asparagus acutifolius
Udine 100 Valerianella olitoria
Cicerbita alpina
Blow Sow Thistle
The wild plants that we tested:
Valerianella olitoriaCorn Salad
Ruscus aculeatusButcher’s Broom
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Godo King Henry
Asparagus acutifolius
Sharp-leaved Asparagus
Levisticum officinaleLovage
Silene vulgarisBladder
Campion
Aruncus dioicusGoat’s Beard
Teaching approach (primary
and secondary
school)Increasin
g of research activity
Implementation of utilities
Development of wild
plants
Farm holidays sector
Mountain areas
Organic farms
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Results
The main results were: • development of new biological agriculture techniques for spontaneous plants;
• harvest of wild plants (nutritional analysis);
• nursery of wild plants;
• creation of micro-productive chains, able to help in environmental protection and biodiversity tutelage;
• seeds collection (plants for experimental plots);
• achievement of propagation material freely available for farms in the “Vivaio Forestale Regionale of IRF”;
• typical and local products valorisation throughout their nutritional pattern characterisation;
• consolidation of quality and quantity for market offer (fresh plants or transformed products);
• creation of an integration among traditional agriculture and gastronomic compartment, in order to enhance tourism.
The numbers of BioInnoverbe:
– 3 institutional partners;– 1 nursery garden;– 30 harvest points; – 25000 plants employed in the experimentation trial;– 8 experimental fields;– 6 participation to radio and TV programs;– 18 presentations of the project in Italy and in Europe;– 4 participation to national and European conferences;– 46.000 plants freely given to farmers;– 13 scientific papers on local or specialised
magazines;– 4 Ph Doctors and 3 students employed; – 3 relationships with National Agriculture Institutions; – 1 book and a guidebook.
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
The products have now to follow a traceable and certified pathway, in order to guarantee their genuineness and
safety. This short chain is related to a “niche market”, deeply
integrated with the typicality of the territory. For this reason, it will be possible to enlarge the offer with the introduction of new cultivars and new vegetable goods available only in FVG.
The quality is a fundamental prerogative and it is the turning point for the expansion of the local economy and tourism.
BioInnovErbe is certainly an innovative project that achieves important results,
for all the stakeholders, from
the ecological (biodiversity tutelage) and economicalpoint of view
The vegetables were obtain with biological-low impact techniques, in marginal and not polluted areas.
Since the very encouraging achievements obtained, the spread of the results, for the knowledge transfer to other similar realities, was organised as follow:
to enhance the employment of the cultural techniques in other areas, similar tot eh experimental one;
to keep on with research activities;
to sensitize all the stakeholders but also the citizens to the patrimony of spontaneous plants of our territory;
since further investigations should be carried out on other spontaneous plants, in order to enlarge the availability of new products, a new project “FutureBioErbe” has just started its experimental trials.