INNOVACT Working Meeting and Study - Sonia VENERUS - Ennio SCARBOLO Trieste, 7 June 2018.

INNOVACT Working Meeting and Study
                Trieste, 7 June 2018.

- Sonia VENERUS
- Ennio SCARBOLO
 Regional Agency for Rural Development

Ersa – The Regional Agency
   for Rural Development

   is an operative agency
 of the Friuli Venezia Giulia
    Autonomous Region
            (Italy)

About ERSA
Pursuing the aims for which it was established under the regional law no.
8/2004, ERSA provides services and information for the development of
agriculture in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Main activities carried out by ERSA are:
Control, monitoring and certification services: phytosanitary monitoring,
controls and certification, chemical, agricultural and biotechnology
analyses, land and soil classification, AQuA regional label management,
vegetation propagation certification, farm holidays supervision, organic
agriculture, didactic farms credit
Applied research, experimental activities and advisory services concerning:
arable crops, horticolture, orchards, vineyards, olive cultivation, animal
husbandry.
Promotion and marketing: promotion and marketing of the agricultural
productions
Participation and partnership in projects: financed by regional, national and
EU funds on research and transnational cooperation topics

ERSA organisational structure
Headquarters and administrative services are sited in Gorizia
ERSA operational services:
  Legal, administrative, account and general affairs Service

 Phytosanitary and chemistry, research, experimentation and
advisory service

 Promotion, agrarian statistics and marketing service

Phytosanitary and chemistry, research,
experimentation and advisory service
Headquarters        Pozzuolo del Friuli (Udine)

Activities Phytosanitary issues, as part of Italian National Plant
           Protection Organization (plant quarantine controls and
           regulation, import/export certification, official surveys,
           surveillance)
           Lab biotechology and GMOs analyses, lab analyses for
           contaminants, agricultural products, soil parameters

           Research    and    experimentation     for    cultivation
           techniques   and    technologies,    plant   protection,
           cultivars conservation, land soil classification, animal
           husbandry, food quality and consumer safety, EU
           national and regional projects and partnership,
           advisory and extension service

                        11 administrative staff
Permanent staff
                        43 technicians

The distribution of olive cultivation in the
           Mediterranean area

Interreg IIIA Italia–Slovenia – 2000-2006
                 UE–LI–JE

  The olive tree in the history, the landscape
 and economy of Brda and the hills of eastern
    Friuli: conservation and development.

 L’olivo nella storia, nel paesaggio e nell’economia
        di Brda e nei Colli del Friuli orientale:
              conservazione e sviluppo

Interreg Italia–Slovenia
           2007-2013
          UE–LI–JE II
           The symbol of quality
        in the cross-border region
(il simbolo della qualità nell’area transfrontaliera)

                 pleasure for soul and heart

MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES OF
             UELIJE II PROJECT
       (Attività più importanti del Progetto Uelije II)

- Suitable areas for olive cultivations
(Vocazionalità alla coltivazione dell’olivo)
- Socio-economic analysis
(Analisi socio–economica)
- Studies and research on olive oil
(Studi e ricerche sull’olio EVO)
- Extra Vergin Olive Oil production specifications
(Disciplinare di produzione)
- Study and conservation of the indigenous plant
varieties
(Conservazione varietà autoctone)
- Creation of a transborder expert team group – Panel
Test
(Formazione di Panel transfrontaliero)
- WEB SITE www.uelije.eu

Olive cultivations in the cross-border region
 (area transfrontaliera di coltivazione dell’olivo)

Examples of olive cultivations in the cross-border region

Marginal
cultivation

                      on the margins of vineyards

Traditional
cultivation

                in the lowland                on the hill

The map of suitable areas
                    for olive cultivations
                (Friuli Venezia Giulia – ITA)
                            (Bianco D., 2014)

Carta della vocazione alla coltivazione dell’olivo in Friuli Venezia Giulia

The map of suitable areas
                  for olive cultivations
      (Karts Plateau, Vipava valley and Goriska Brda - SLO)
                         (Borut Vrscaj, 2014)

Gorizia

     TRIESTE

Capodistria

Hill areas near the Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Trieste)
                                              Carta della vocazionalità del
                                               territorio di Trieste (ITA)

• SUITABLE (Hill between Trieste and Muggia)
The climate is much more favourable due to the nearness of sea, although it nevertheless
changes because of larger or smaller exposure to the wind Bora.

EXTRA VERGIN OLIVE OIL
  PRODUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
         (Disciplinare di produzione)

                                    Gentle
                                    flavour
                                   (Delicato)

                  EVO
UELIJE          Olio extra
             vergine di oliva

                                    Strong
                                    flavour
                                    (Deciso)

Olive varieties
                     (varietà di olivo)

Gentle flavour (gusto delicato):
- oil from Drobnica, Cernica, (local varieties, 50%)
- olio from Leccino, Maurino, Grignan (no local)

Strong flavour (gusto deciso):
- oil from Bianchera, Gorgazzo (local varieties, 80%)

Product characteristics
         (caratteristiche al consumo al confezionamento)

• Panel Test     (valutazione sensoriale):

- No faults (assenza di difetti)

- Acidity max (acidità massima) ≤ 0.3 (in wt% expressed oleic acid)

- Peroxid value (numero perossidi) ≤ 12 (mmol O2/kg of oil)

- K 232 ≤ 2.00

- K 270 ≤ 0.15

• Extra Vergin Oil:
- Acidity max (acidità massima) ≤ 0.8

- Peroxid value (numero perossidi) ≤ 20

Basic objective of the UELIJE II
                    (obiettivi del progetto)

- Suitable areas identification for olive cultivations
(vocazionalità alla coltivazione dell’olivo)

- Studies and research on conservation of local and native
  olive varieties, identify native olive germplasm
(studi e ricerche sulla conservazione e moltiplicazione del
patrimonio genetico delle varietà autoctone di olivo)

- Marketing strategy proposal for a brand UELIJE – high
quality extra virgin oil in our area
(proposta di una strategia di mercato attraverso la creazione di un
marchio di olio EVO di alta qualità)

www.ersa.fvg.it

www.uelije.eu

Grazie per l’attenzione
    Thank you for your attention

                          Ennio Scarbolo
                     ennio.scarbolo@ersa.fvg.it

                          Sonia Venerus
                     sonia.venerus@ersa.fvg.it

ERSA – Servizio fitosanitario, chimico, ricerca, sperimentazione
                      assistenza tecnica