Vegetable Research and Development Station Buzau – Research, innovation, and passion for Romanian vegetable cultivation!

ADER 13.1.1: Technical and economic substantiation of production costs and estimates of the market prices for field- and protected-grown tomatoes, field- and protected-grown cucumbers, cornichons, carrots, sweet peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, field- and greenhouse-grown flowers and medicinal plants, for conventional and organic agriculture

  • Implementation period: 2015-2018

Project objectives

  • Forecasts of the yield potential of vegetable, aromatic and medicinal plant species in the context of current climate change, and of the yields obtained under conventional and organic systems, in the open field and under protected cultivation (polytunnel), for the following species: tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet pepper, carrot and cucumber, intended for use as fresh plant produce.

Results

  • Development of cultivation technologies adapted to both the conventional and the organic system, in the open field and under protected cultivation (polytunnel), covering a wide range of vegetable species (tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet pepper, carrot, cucumber), aromatic plants (summer savory, basil) and flowers (calendula, chamomile, chrysanthemums, carnations, pinks, marigolds);
  • 3 books, 2 ISI-indexed articles.
Project coordinator
Research Institute for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (ICEADR)
Budget
  • 150,000 LEI