ISHS Acta Horticulturae 191: Symposium on Protected Cultivation of Solanacea in Mild Winter Climates
COVERED CROPS IN ITALY, EUROPE AND IN THE WORLD |
| Authors: | S. Porcelli, R. D'Amore |
| Abstract:
The research has made possible up today to be present in many fields of agricultural productive cycle, but considering the new energetic costs it's necessary to introduce, with an immediate realization, energy savings in the whole agricultural productive system. Saving requires a reconversion also in ways of life. In fact the increase of energy is by itself a reason of minor economic development or even of social regress. All depends on the violence through which it is manifested. But it is opposed by the technological progress and particularly by the processes trying to save energy, or - that is the same - to increase the productive efficiency of employed agricultural technologies. Unfortunately energy crisis and technological innovation have no controllable or regulable rhytms, so that, a possibility of minor development, in long range of time, is presumed. To obviate that, you can bolh make suitable cultivation reconversions and introduce new technologies in order to exploit to the utmost the productive potential of cultivated plants. Therefore in a near future in Italy and in many European Countries, will be necessary the application in agriculture of special technologies as, for example agronics and for other aspects the exploitation of direct energetic sources of Mediterranean environments characterized by a higher degree of light and temperature, and a seldom use of indirect energetic sources provided that they are at low costs. On this account in Italy and Europe all the production factors have to be optimized, trying to use every kind of energetic saving technology, and with the employment of new vegetable constitutions at low energetic need and with the maximum exploitation of the natural energetic sources (direct energies). European and Italian covered crop, in the light of these new trends, has shown in the last few years, a high dinamism assaciated with a significative shift towards the most southern cultivation areas, particularly the Mediterranean ones, where the environmental factors are easier available. This reflection, involving the exploitation of certain agricultural environments, has be considered both in relation with the covered crop improvement, and above all with social and economic improvement of the most southern European rural population. | |
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