It is a well-known fact that tutoring helps plants grow vertically properly, especially during the first post-transplant days.
Alessandro Avarino
The more this operation is carried out correctly, the more plants benefit from suitable ventilation and exposure to sunlight. But the benefits of tutoring do not end here, as it can also facilitate other phases such as sfemminellatura (the cutting back of female part of the plant) and pruning. All this significantly reduces stress levels for plants. While not all agronomic advantages have been listed yet, we can anticipate other aspects of this practice that have become increasingly important, provided that suitable tools are used. FreshPlaza has talked about it with Alessandro Avarino from Sia Sicilia Group.
Tutor package
How to save water
"Let's start by saying that traditional greenhouse plant support systems require a lot of labor. The solution we patented, however, helps save time as execution times are halved. Our system requires fewer hours when it comes to both tying operations as well as when crops are discontinued," explains Alessandro Avarino, who designed the system.
Positioning of the thread
"The system is made up of a structure made of polyethyene threads used to tie the most popular crops such as tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, etc. It is very versatile, assembled industrially, and is available with a wide range of thread sizes, distances between vertical threads, respect for layout distances, etc. The assortment of hooks - either simple or multiple - useful for top anchoring is just as varied."
Horizontal thread on a hook
"In order to meet additional needs for crops where plant growth is not determined, it is possible to add the new Ideal Tutor Dinamico. It is basically the same system, but it is also equipped with a modular solution that, through small cuts, enables the addition of modules when the crop reaches the eaves so as to lower it to the desired height (30 to 60 cm per module)."
The operation can be carried out up to three times, so crops can grow a further 90/180 cm. This makes it possible to lengthen the productive life of the crop and increase its productivity without having to pay to replant it."
As reported by Avarino, the lack of labor has become an ongoing problem not just in Italy but throughout Europe. The workforce should therefore no longer be considered as an item on which it is necessary to save money, but more pragmatically, it is necessary to come to terms with the people needed to perform the production processes, who are not available on the labor market.
The rationalization of processes with Ideal Tutor, a system developed by SIA Sicilia Group to reduce tutoring operations by 50%, has therefore become topical, in addition to leading to great intrinsic agronomic advantages for plants.
For further information:
Alessandro Avarino
SIA Sicilia Group
Via XXV Aprile, 42
97019 Vittoria, Italy
Tel.: +39 3345837641
[email protected]
www.siagroupsrl.it