VEGEPOLYS' budding innovations to be showcased at Horti Fair 2010
French vegetal competitiveness cluster VEGEPOLYS will take part in the annual international Horti Fair trade show in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 12 October to 15 October 2010, where it will showcase three innovative projects: Plantinov'Ser, Genêts, and PETAAL.
- (1888PressRelease) September 16, 2010 - Located in the Loire Valley, VEGEPOLYS is an innovation cluster which brings together companies involved in plant growing with a range of partner organisations. It is recognised worldwide for its grouping of businesses, R&D centres and training establishments, and has been designated a world-class competitiveness cluster by the French Government.
The three innovative projects VEGEPOLYS has been promoting are Plantinov'Ser, Genêts, and PEETAL.
The Plantinov'Ser project, led by the inter-professional technical centre for fruit and vegetables (CTIFL) in Carquefou, near Nantes, and the regional horticultural office (BHR) in Angers, aims to improve greenhouse energy-saving techniques in the horticultural and vegetable sectors. The Plantinov'Ser project develops energy-saving ducts, sources suitable vegetal material, and uses professional pilot sites to test relevant strategies as well as the equipment's technical ability and value.
The Genêts project is an international varietal innovation project which specialises in creating new varieties of broom. The project is supported by the Eurogeni business interest group (GIE Eurogeni) in Beaufort-en-Vallée, in western France. Broom is a plant that can grow in poor or depleted soil, as found in brownfield sites. Broom is, however, equally suitable for home gardening and flowerpots.
The PEETAL project (Environmental Protection and Alignment Tree Technology), which is led by Koppert, a private company based in Cavaillon (south-eastern France), aims to protect plane trees in Mediterranean countries from an insect known as the lace bug. Plane trees are highly effective in providing shade in countries which are exposed to substantial sunlight. The project's objective is to move away from the chemical treatment of plane trees, and over to the organic protection of the trees against this destructive insect that causes leaf decolouration and early defoliation.
About VEGEPOLYS
VEGEPOLYS is a competitiveness cluster based in the Loire Valley,in France. It brings together a group of companies, R&D centres and training organisations from across the vegetal sector, including fruit and vegetables, seeds, medicinal and aromatic plants, and ornamental horticulture. The members of the cluster are companies that are involved, directly or indirectly, in plant growing, together with trade associations, regional development bodies, as well as local chambers of commerce and industry.
The cluster gathers together leading expert organisations such as INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), Agrocampus Ouest (higher institute of agronomy, agri-food studies, and horticultural and landscape design), and Angers University, which are all recognised specialists in variety creation, the health and quality of seeds and plants, and urban and suburban landscaping. VEGEPOLYS also includes European agencies of reference, such as the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) in Angers,which handles the registration of varieties in the European index.
Companies, be they from France or elsewhere, are encouraged to establish themselves in the region, and will enjoy the support of VEGEPOLYS and its partners - Ouest Atlantique (western France's investment-promotion agency) and the Maine et Loire Expansion Committee (for the département of Maine et Loire).
VEGEPOLYS will be showcasing its key projects in Hall 1, Stand 0128, at Horti Fair, in the RAI Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam (Netherlands), from 12 October to 15 October 2010.
For more information on Horti Fair, please go to: www.hortifair.com
For more information on VEGEPOLYS, please go to: www.vegepolys.eu/en/vegepolys
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