The Plant Nursery Area , which is a plant baby’s room and varietal innovation exhibition , will return to Macfrut 2024 ( 8 - 10 May , Rimini Expo Centre ) . As part of the Plant Nursery Area , the International Rootstocks Symposium will take place on May 8th and 9th . During this issue on genetic innovations in the rhizome sector , the event of 25 international labor on orchard apple tree , pear , stone fruit , and citrus yield Tree will be present .
According to Macfrut , the Italian fruit nursery diligence is one of the sector that drive international production chains . To instance , data from CIVI Italia ( the interprofessional national consortium of professional nursery and conjugation of growers ) shows that the industriousness involve about 1,000 company 16,000 hectares of plant spread textile , an annual workforce of more than 80,000 people , a production value of more than € 600 million , and a growing exportation share come to about 50 % of production .
The organisation sum up that Italy is one of the European leaders in yield greenhouse , with an one-year production of 330 million strawberry plants , over 50 million fruit plant , and an equivalent number of rootstocks . As is the Netherlands , which has a production of 250 - 300 million hemangioma simplex and berries , 40 million rootstock , and 9 million yield industrial plant .
Luigi Catalano , music director of CIVI Italia , highlights : " These numbers are even more singular when you consider that , at European and global levels , Italian excellency in the fruit baby’s room industry is evidenced by the fact that the Italian greenhouse industry can offer producer high quality and specific genetical and health necessary "
He adds : " To evoke these standards and promote the quality of its products in European and global markets , CIVI Italia – in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Agriculture , Food Sovereignty and Forests ( MASAF ) – has decided to take in a new baby’s room certificate system under the brand name QVI - Qualità Vivaistica Italia . It has higher tone levels and expert guarantee than the stock single required by European certification systems " .
Macfrut states that the QVI - certificate of Italy ’s plant nursery production lead in the 12 million yield plants , 250 million strawberry plants , and 30 million rootstocks that the industry can count on today .
The IRS - International Rootstocks Symposium will be part of the conference programme of the Plant Nursery Area at Macfrut 2024 : a two - day issue , jointly organise with SOI ( Italian Society for Horticultural Science ) and CIVI Italia . It focuses on genic innovations in rhizome , comprise of four seminars provide results from public and private inquiry conducted as part of 25 international projects on orchard apple tree , pear , stone fruit and citrus yield trees .
" Because of the change taking place globally , it was clip to get back to discussing rootstocks and not just salmagundi , " explain Stefano Lugli , coordinator of the expo and convener of IRS along with Stefano La Malfa .
They elaborate : " Today ’s global trends show a need for genetic initiation and we should also commence thinking about changing exist farming exemplar to deal the growing requirement for sustainability in fruit production . On the other hand , we also require to bring about the change required to deal with ongoing climate alteration . give all this , researching genetic introduction in rootstock is a more effective and onward - appear approaching than racing madly and uncontrollably to come up new varieties . finally , first and foremost , the trouble must be puzzle out from its roots , that is , rootstocks " .
The importance of root will be the paper of the keynote address that Davide Neri will give at the International Rootstocks Symposium . He explains , " Decline issues are on the salary increase in several yield - growing areas , cause substantial red , as many plants are dying as a result of extreme conditions have by the climate crisis . The most concerning issues are pear decline , kiwifruit vine decline syndrome ( KVDS ) and citrus tree root pathogens , while apple , Prunus persica and cherry Tree are also suffer pregnant harm " .
He then total , " Against this background knowledge , progressively rough-cut extreme weather issue such as maverick rainfall distribution , sound rain alternating with protract drought periods and sustained high summer temperature , undermine the resiliency of a system base on fragile and poorly developed rootstocks , causing plants to suffer . Consequently , any standard that can be require to improve the organisation theme from the need to make enjoyment of genetic resource that are more tolerant to abiotic accent and to find agriculture methods that can ameliorate root wellness when soil fertility rate is poor and when extreme weather events take place . "
" More specifically , to improve " the fondness and intellect " of our orchards , we need to sleep with more about the computer architecture of ancestor organisation in relation to tree diagram vigour and about biodiversity , which is necessary for roots to function in simplified cenoses , as well as how roots respond to crop intensification and the clime crisis , " he concludes .
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