Evaluating the Potential for Development of Vegetable Nursery Industry

Nursery industry has a considerable importance in thevalue chain’ building of vegetable companies. Its importance increases in acountry like Italy, where vegetable productions in open field and in greenhousecontribute significantly to the creation of income and employment and to thesocio-economic support of entire geographic areas. However, this sector isunderpowered, if compared to the potential expressed by the vegetableproduction, considering that technical, economic and market literature suggeststhe opportunity to extend the use of transplantation as an alternative to thedirect seeding in order to achieve environmental and commercial benefits. Thiswork was both the result of a meta-analysis and a direct survey and aims todetermine an estimate of demand of nursery industry in Sicily, a region thatintercepts approximately 31% of national INVESTMENTS in protected cultivationand provides the basis for evaluating the activation potential of newinvestments, considering technical legislative and market aspects and thesupply chain integration.

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