SUSGRO 2019 | SUSGRO 2019

WELCOME

The III International Symposium on Growing Media, Composting and Substrate Analysis will be held in Milan (Italy) June 24 –28, 2019. It is our pleasure to host this conference and to invite you to attend.

This is the second time that a meeting on substrates has been hold in Italy (the first being in 1992 in Florence) and since then the growing media industry had consistently expanded in Italy. According to the last European survey, the Italian market for growing media ranked only second to Germany and has reached its highest-ever value in Europe.

The 2019 International Symposium will be an ideal occasion for discussing and exchanging experiences on growing media and all connected topics. We hope you will appreciate the scientific program, but also the cultural and touristic events, that we are preparing for you.

Patrizia Zaccheo, Costantino Cattivello, Francesco Giuffrida

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

Novel inorganic and organic materials as soilless media
Technological advances in production, processing and use of growing media constituents
Adopting new technologies: green roofs, green walls, media for robotic systems
Advances in analytical characterization of growing media
Management of water and nutrient requirements of substrates
Composting processes and use of composted end-products as components of growing media
Microbiology and growing media: beneficial and disease-inciting microorganisms
Weed, pest and disease control in growing media
Advances in growing media additives
Hydroponics and aquaponics based systems
Soilless cultivation and horticulture sustainability
Advances in peat use sustainability
Life cycle assessment of growing media and components
Horticulture use of materials from bioenergy processes and biofactories (biochar, digestate, bioplastic)