On November 27, 2018, the Italian BRESOV partner CREA (Research Center for Vegetable and Ornamental Crop) will participate in a workshop entitled “Quality schemes for agricultural and food products: the Organic Horticulture sector”. The event is jointly organised with ISMEA (Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare) and will take place at the CREA premises in Monsampolo del Tronto (Italy).

The meeting of the focus group will discuss the opportunities and phenomena that are affecting the world of organic horticulture. The following topics will be addressed:

• Low-impact system, with reference to the organic method for vegetable cultivation;
• The role of the agronomy and breeding of vegetable crops according to traditional, modern and participatory approaches for valorising the supply chain and to fulfil the changed regulatory requirements;
• The traceability of organic vegetable productions with respect to conventional ones;
• The difficulty to promote the organic vegetable;
• The value distribution along the organic vegetable chain

The focus group is aimed at the stakeholders of organic vegetable production including authorities of the rural development program 2014/2020, officials responsible for the National measures on organic, technicians and researchers, organic horticultural farmers, processing and seed companies, trade associations as well as certification institutions. At the end of the meeting, a visit to the organic certified field will be organized and the following projects associated with the themes of the focus group will be presented:

• H2020 - BRESOV: Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production
• H2020 - LIVESEED: Improve performance of organic agriculture by boosting organic seed and plant breeding efforts across Europe
• National Italian project - INNOVABIO: Applicazione di metodi innovativi per la rintracciabilità dei prodotti dell’agricoltura biologica

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