BIOSTIMOLA

The reality of biostimulants at your fingertips. Informative and demonstrative action on the use, the regulations, and the classification of this new category of products.

Areas of intervention:
Goals:

The specific objectives of the project are:

  • Carrying out informative actions in order to become familiar with biostimulants, their correct use and the current regulations and market;
  • Carrying out demonstrative actions in the field, in University facilities (greenhouses and laboratories) and in the locations of companies in the sector that will host evaluation trials for biostimulants;
  • Supporting agricultural companies and professionals by supplying them with scientifical notions and techniques regarding biostimulants, their activity and action and the potential ways to use them;
  • Raising the farmers’ awareness of their important role in the protection of the territory, which is achieved also through a rational use of agricultural products, from the perspective of economic and environmental sustainability;
  • Supplying adequate tools for the on-going education of company consultants and every professional in the sector of crops of agricultural interest;
  • Promoting the exchange of knowledge in a sector that will significantly grow and greatly develop in the years to come.
Funding:

Project co-financed by Operation 1.2.01 “Demonstrative projects and informative actions” of FEASR-Programme of Rural Development 2014-2020.

Partnership:
  • Università degli Studi di Milano – Department of Environmental Science and Policy
  • Agricola 2000