Economic Sustainability of Early Potato Production in the Mediterranean Area

Sgroi, Filippo; Trapani, Anna Maria Di; Testa, Riccardo; Tudisca, Salvatore

doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1598.1603

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“…Thereby, full advantage of the greenhouses height is taken and each tomato plant is able to reach a production of [20][21][22] The farming operations following transplantation call for the elimination of lateral shoots and pollination of flowers, performed by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Tomatoes are cultivated in a plastic mulched/drip irrigated production system.…”

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“…Ragusa Province, despite being the primary Sicilian production area, during last ten years, showed a decrease both in terms of greenhouse tomato area (−7.3%) and harvested production (−27.4%) for several structural and commercial problems. Therefore, in order to better understand the profitability of Sicilian greenhouse cherry tomato production and determine its weaknesses, an economic analysis of farms is needed, as was done in similar studies [16][17][18][19], since economic sustainability is the most important factor for the adoption of a crop, as it ensures the farm's long-term competitiveness [20][21][22][23][24]. In this context, the aim of this paper was to analyze the economic profitability of Sicilian greenhouse cherry tomato cultivated in the Ragusa Province.…”

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Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

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Greenhouse tomato cultivation plays an important role in Sicily, being the primary production area in Italy, due to its favorable pedo-climatic conditions that permit extra-seasonal productions. In Sicily, more than half of greenhouse tomato production is derived from the Province of Ragusa on the southeastern coast, where especially cherry tomato typologies are cultivated. Over the last decade, the Ragusa Province has registered a decrease both in terms of greenhouse tomato area and harvested production due to several structural problems that would require restructuring of the tomato supply chain. Thus, since recognition of real costs and profitability of tomato growing is a vital issue, both from the perspective of the farm, as well as from that of the entrepreneur, the aim of this paper was to analyze the economic sustainability of Sicilian greenhouse cherry tomato cultivated in the Ragusa Province. In particular, an economic analysis on 30 representative farms was conducted in order to estimate production costs and profits of greenhouse cherry tomato. According to our results, the lack of commercial organization, which characterizes the small farms we surveyed, determines low contractual power for farmers and, consequently, low profitability.

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“…There are many weed management techniques that can be lead to reduced herbicide dependence, as direct-seeding, competitive varieties, increased seeding rates, strategic fertilizer placement, growing silage and cover crops, all these have excellent potential to suppress weed growth (Harker and Blackshaw, 2009). Crop residues hold a great prospect for meeting some of those demands and have more readily applicable in agro ecosystems (Alsaadawi et al, 2013;Testa et al, 2014;Sgroi et al, 2014). This approach (Crop residue) can be used in weeds management by two ways; it can be used by selecting an appropriate residue of crop variety then incorporating it in soil, Also it can used by applying residues or straw as mulches on soil surface in a rotational sequence that allows residues to remain in the field (Alsaadawi and Dayan, 2009).…”

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Weed Management in Sesame Field (<i>Sesamum indicum</i> L) Using Wheat Straw and Tillage or no Tillage Systems

Al-Eqaili¹,

Lahmod

Eshkandi

2017

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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A field trial was achieved to test the response of weed and sesame crop to use wheat straw and tillage or no tillage systems. The experiment treatments were include; no tillage without straw, tillage without straw, tillage with straw, incorporated with soil and straw as cover crop (no tillage). The result shown that weed density and biomass have high significantly suppression when wheat straw applied as cover crop and without tillage soil compared with soil tillage without straw treatments, while no significant different noticed between treatment that no tillage without straw and tillage with straw incorporated with soil treatments. Using wheat straw as cover crop significantly improved sesame yield and yield components about 50% more than using wheat straw as incorporated with soil treatment and no tillage without straw treatment. This increase in sesame yield can be attribute to amended of capsules number per plant (53.2 capsules) and number of seed per capsule (54.6 seed) compared with 18.1 capsules per plant and 53.6 seed per capsule in tillage without straw treatment . The results of this study have led to the conclusion of possibility using wheat straw hopeful approach to amended sesame planting when used as cover crop.

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“…But only the number of unsold pieces and its economic value in terms of loss (Sgroi et al, 2014a). Accordingly, for appropriate reasons related to the homogeneity of the comparison of data, they have been omitted.…”

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Analysis and Models for the Reduction of Food Waste in Organized Large-Scale Retail Distribution in Eastern Sicily

Lanfranchi¹,

Giannetto²,

Pascale³

2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Nowadays, food waste is one of the main global paradoxes and raises profound questions from the social point of view. The causes of food losses and food waste are varied and differ according to the various stages of the food chain. The problem of food waste prompted the European Parliament to proclaim 2014 the "European year against food waste" and to adopt a resolution which should lead to a reduction of 50% of waste by the year 2025. This study proposes the possible corrective actions, to be taken at the level of retail distribution and facing the end customer, to achieve the goal reducing of food waste (Fiore et al., 2008). The research was conducted by a group of scholars of the Department of Economics, Business, Environmental and Quantitative Methods, at the University of Messina, on a sample area of eastern Sicily. In particular thirteen retail outlets were analyzed by collecting and processing data on sales, broken down by sector, for the period 2009 to 2013. The research conducted has shown that the food sector that contributes most to food waste, in the area investigated, is that of fruit and vegetables, the study has provided a detailed analysis of the ten most wasted foods. The work finally comes to processes that involve many different scenarios for reducing waste, encouraging a comparison, of the products most wasted, by providing potential solutions or corrective actions aimed at reducing the phenomenon analyzed.

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Economic Sustainability of Early Potato Production in the Mediterranean Area

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Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Weed Management in Sesame Field (<i>Sesamum indicum</i> L) Using Wheat Straw and Tillage or no Tillage Systems

Analysis and Models for the Reduction of Food Waste in Organized Large-Scale Retail Distribution in Eastern Sicily

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