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The History

Florcoop was founded in 1980 by the desire of some cooperatives in Liguria to market floricultural products in Italy and abroad.

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They represent the fundamental tool for the development of agriculture, forestry, the natural environment and the economy of the rural areas of Liguria.

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Florcoop Sanremo is a commercial structure for the qualitative protection of the floricultural product of western Liguria, based in Sanremo, Riviera dei Fiori, Imperia.

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Florcoop San Remo provides several training services with the goal of professionally growing the owners of production companies supplying floriculture products.

Reducing the environmental impact of off-ground cultivation of cut flower species in the Western Riviera (FUORISUOLOSMART)

RDP 2014-2020 Measure 16.01

Goals

In order to achieve smart irrigation, an APP, combined with a greenhouse lysimeter, has been developed and tested that can automatically control the main parameters of the above-ground crop by promptly reporting when to irrigate, how to fertilize, any abnormalities and how to solve them, so as to reduce the environmental impact and increase the profitability of these crops.

Application no.

12836

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Project duration

01/03/2021 – 30/11/2022

 

The project

The objectives are as follows:

  1. Design and testing of Decision Support System (DSS) with related APP and lysimeter;
  2. DSS testing in the western Ligurian Riviera environment on buttercup;
  3. Testing the use of biochar as an adjuvant for the containment of root diseases of ranunculus above ground;
  4. Testing the use of chitosan for root disease control of buttercup;

Download the PDF from the magazine “Earth is Life” no. 23-2022

Download slides from the seminar Nutritional needs and low-impact techniques for off-ground cultivation of cut flower species of November 22, 2022

Download the final project brochure

Download the poster of the presentation at the AKIS conference on October 26, 2023

Demonstration visit

At the Florcoop agricultural company, on 7 April 2022, a practical meeting was held to illustrate the functioning of the lysimeter and the smartphone APP for monitoring the main parameters of soilless cultivation: pH, conductivity of both the incoming solution that of the drained, quantity of water administered at each intervention and relative percentage of drainage, main climatic factors.