by INI | May 30, 2025 | Case Studies, CICS03, News
Another year another (inter-) crop. But the years are so variable. More unpredictable weather affects cultivations, crop development, and harvest. With all these variables, figuring out a blueprint to grow intercropped organic oilseed rape is tricky. A group of...
by INI | May 21, 2025 | CICS11, News
In the framework of its activities addressed to citizens, last May 17 the Municipal Botanical Museum ‘Aurelia Josz’ in Milan organized a free visit to its garden. On the occasion, the Museum curators invited CREA’s researchers Daniele Cavalli and Luciano Pecetti–who...
by INI | Mar 7, 2025 | CICS08, News
Within the framework of the INTERCROPVALUES project, the public company INTIA has developed a case study of co-innovation (CICS 8) in agriculture based on the reduction of pests in horticultural crops with the involvement of different agents in the sector with whom...
by INI | Jan 29, 2025 | News, Update Experimentation
In a previous project’s news (November 2023) we emphasized that a great deal of plant-plant interactions in intercropping take place in the hidden root zone, and presented a rather simple phenotyping pipeline to measure root traits based on rhizoboxes. These boxes...
by INI | Dec 17, 2024 | CICS010, News
Two years of agronomic trials: where does CICS 10 stand? In 2023, a group of farmers in the Anjou region began a series of full-scale experiments on lentil-based associated crops, with the aim of marketing these lentils to local caterers. A year later, the...
