Berry Grow

浆果种植

• 批准号: 10094313
• 金额: $ 18.65万
• 依托单位: JAMES HUTTON LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10094313
• 关键词: Berry; Grow

The soft-fruit industry has changed almost beyond recognition over the past 20 years, with average yields of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries increasing 172%, 98% and 118% per ha respectively between 2000 and 2019, driven primarily by the switch to soil-less (substrate) protected cultivation. The sector is valued at £2.2bn annually with year-on-year volume growth of 7% between 2014-2018 (DEFRA Horticultural Statistics), strawberry being the major crop (£1.6bn). Availability of coir substrate is likely to become a major constraint in soft fruit production due to rising costs, transport costs and competition for supply. This project aims to demonstrate how a range of soft fruit crops grow and suppress disease in a sustainable UK produced supplemented substrate. Unlike Coir which holds excess moisture around the root zone creating over watering conditions which favour root pathogen infection and spread, this substrate has excellent water management capacity, supporting the industry need to reduce water use, fertiliser use and leaching; improving local water quality and helping to reduce its environmental footprint towards a more sustainable growing media.

在过去的20年里，软果行业发生了几乎无法辨认的变化，2000年至2019年期间，草莓，树莓和蓝莓的平均产量分别增加了172%，98%和118%，主要是由于转向无土（基质）保护栽培。该行业每年价值22亿英镑，2014-2018年的产量同比增长7%（DEFRA园艺统计数据），草莓是主要作物（16亿英镑）。由于成本、运输成本和供应竞争的增加，椰壳纤维基质的可用性可能成为软果生产的主要制约因素。该项目旨在展示一系列软果作物如何在英国生产的可持续补充基质中生长和抑制疾病。与椰壳纤维不同，椰壳纤维在根区周围保持多余的水分，造成过度浇水的条件，有利于根病原体感染和传播，这种基质具有出色的水管理能力，支持行业减少用水，化肥使用和沥滤的需求;改善当地水质，并有助于减少其环境足迹，实现更可持续的生长介质。