AIR3-CT93-1236 Hibiscus esculentus: Development of an Integrated Exploitation System with High Added Value

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	Contract No	AIR3-CT93-1236
	Total Cost	1 598 400
	EC Contribution	899 000
	Start Date	01/10/1993
	Duration	42 months

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OBJECTIVE :

This project aims to prove the possibility and the feasibility of Hibiscus Esculentus crop introduction into European agriculture, as an environmentally friendly crop, with multifarious possibilities of the derived products to be used. Therefore, it pursues to develop an agromanagement free chemical system. Every year, multiplied material will be disposed by the Coordinating Unit in Greece, Italy, France and possibly in Spain, where experimental cultivations will be realised in order to search the quantitative and qualitative characters of derived products. The deliverables (products and research's results) will be:

1. the cultivation itself, aiming the whole system of agricultural treatment, free of any chemical intervention and economical applicable, to be proved,

2. fresh pods for chemical analysis, certification of many fold dietetics and functional properties of their ingredients (nutritious ingredients, price elements, vitamins, polysaccharides), as well as the possibilities of conversion and commercialisation.

3. seeds for chemical analysis, determination and evaluation of their ingredients aiming at food, feed and chemical industrial use,

4. considerable quantity and quality of fibres for laboratory analysis with specification and evaluation of their properties in the paper making and fibre reinforcing processings,

5. agronomical, socio-macro and micro-economical aspects from the realisation of the cultivations in each country.

Every year, the above derivatives and information will acquire an additive and more specific character and will be collected, evaluated and fed back to the Coordinator aiming to provide him with the required information package for the application process. The project will endure about 2.5 years (30 months), starting from April 1993 and ending to September 1995. The last nine months, a mini pilot plan will be set in function, in order to determine the potential processings and uses of bamia's products, looking to the market promotion and environmental effects. This project will be realised under the coordination of an E.E.I.G., whose members will participate as executing units E.E.I.G on its own, will act as project manager and on technical view as evaluator and distributor of all information in question and will be responsible for the diffusion and the delivery to the E.C.

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Contacts

Coordinator

• Mr Orestis. CHRISTIDIS / Alternative Crops in Europe European Economic Interest Grouping / GREECE

EC Scientific Officer

• Adelmo MOREALE / European Commission DG VI Agriculture BELGIUM

Participant

• Monsieur Michel DEPLAGNE / AGROFOREST CONSULTANTS FRANCE
• Dr Kimon KARADZOS / Agricon Ltd. Agricultural Consultants / GREECE
• Mr Orestis. CHRISTIDIS / Athina Velissaridi & Co Seeds GREECE
• M Umberto ZILIOTTO / Centro Reg Iripa ITALY
• Msr Th. EVAGGELOU / Hellenic Cellulosics Company GREECE
• Antoine GASET / Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse INPT / FRANCE
• M Sotirios Karapatakis / Komotini Paper Mills SA GREECE
• M Enrica QUATTRUCCI / National Institute of Nutrition ITALY
• Dr Giuseppe CALABRO / SIVA Spa Gruppo ENCC ITALY