EVENTS
also been completely updated to be more
functional and provide a user-friendly
browsing experience available from
anywhere, including from mobile devices.
Specifically, the “Agrotextiles” section
includes contents of interests to
farmers, easily accessible to all
industry users. Two new information-
packed sections, “applications”
and “crops”, introduce visitors to
ARRIGONI’s innovative textile screens
and describe practical solutions for the
professional management of each crop.
“Net-House”:
ARRIGONI brings innovation
to EIMA 2018
A
RRIGONI S.p.A., a leading
designer and manufacturer of
protective screens for agriculture,
will be at EIMA 2018 (hall 34, stand
B3) with a number of big innovations.
First and foremost, it will be
showcasing the use of ARRIGONI
screens to create net-houses, innovative
growing structures that provide just the
right halfway solution between open
field and greenhouse growing.
“Because of the New Delhi virus, open
field crops without insect protection
are not possible”, explains ARRIGONI
agronomist Giuseppe Netti, “with the
need to guard against aphids, whitefly
and thrip in particular. There are
two possible solutions: one option is
growing in plastic film greenhouses
with AIR PLUS range insect screens,
with the sides closed in autumn,
winter and spring. However, the
drawback is that in areas with a
Mediterranean climate, on sunny days
in spring and autumn the temperature
peaks inside greenhouses are too high.”
“The second solution”, Mr Netti
continues, “is growing in lightweight
structures entirely covered with insect
screens (which we call ‘net-houses’),
and not only during the summer.
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Thanks to the favorable climate created
underneath the structure, in this case
crops can be grown in a protected
environment without too much change
in temperatures. What’s more, in
autumn the microclimate is still more
favorable than in the open field.”
Apart from the advantage of being
able to grow crops with total protection
against whitefly, aphids, bollworm
and other insect pests, net-houses
constructed using ARRIGONI insect
screens offer additional benefits: more
vigorous plants with better resistance
to some diseases; conditions
unfavorable to the spread of fungal
diseases (drier environment with
lower relative humidity); possibility of
starting organic and low environmental
impact growing operations; higher yield
thanks to more suitable microclimate
than in greenhouses; water saving as
plants are not exposed to excessive
evapotranspiration; and much lower
installation cost than a steel structure
with plastic films.
The novelties do not end here, since
the new website is also on-line, with
two main sections, “Agrotextiles”
and “Techtextiles”, providing users
with full information about these two
application families. The graphics have
There are also absolutely new
multimedia contents and the chance
to sign up to receive additional
high-profile updates directly from the
ARRIGONI agronomists.
What’s more, through its sister
company SACHIM, the ARRIGONI
Group has received an award from
the Puglia Region President Michele
Emiliano, “for its excellent results in
Research and Innovation”.
“It is very satisfying to see our
commitment to offering high added
value solutions in the agrotextile field
recognized in this way”, comments
Paolo Arrigoni, CEO of the Group of
the same name, “but at the same time
the award also encourages us to keep
offering agriculture professionals a
partner they can trust.”