From the "sentinel drones of the fields" to the "grandmother's supergin": Sardinia also wins at the Coldiretti Oscars
Many ideas presented by thousands of young entrepreneurs from all over Italy
From those who produce the first sheet of anti-waste paper, made entirely from the waste of garlic, to the plastic fisherwoman that saves the environment and the climate, from those who created the eco-soap to clean the monuments to those who created a vegetable garden- robots for the disabled, up to those who have abandoned careers in the City of London and as an Amazon executive to make jams and guarantee clean energy or have invented an agri drive-in against Covid. These are just some of the ideas born from the ingenuity of young Italians who reinvent their work and presented at Coldiretti's Oscar Green, the award for creativity with the patronage of the Ministry of Agriculture and that of Youth Policies. Many proposals chosen after a long territorial selection among thousands of young entrepreneurs from all over Italy, the real protagonists of Italy that gets up.
Among the finalists also two Sardinians, Ivano Fodde and Andrea Liverani, who invented, respectively, the "Grandma's Supergin" and the "Drones sentinels of the countryside".
Ivano's idea comes from a use of "Sa pompìa", an ancient citrus fruit seal of Campagna Amica, among the rarest in the world, with the connotations of cedar, yellow in color and a weight that often reaches even a kilo, cultivated and peeled by the skilled hands of grandmother Luisa, to become jam or liqueur. Then the meeting with the king of Italian master distillers Gigi Marazzi, and the idea of extracting the vital nerve of this authentic essence of Sardinia to make it gin. Today the recipe for this extraordinary gin is in the hands of Ivano who has combined it, in stills, with juniper and peel of this fruit with an intoxicating, pungent and citrusy essential oil. The "Luis gin", in honor of his grandmother, has conquered the prestigious ports of Sardinia, the most "in" places on the island and the enthusiasm of young people.
Andrea's idea was born instead with a start-up, which has activated a partnership for an experimental network project on precision agriculture of 10 farms. The goal is to avoid wasting water and to administer only the strictly necessary fertilizer and fertilizer, obtaining, at the same time, the minimum use of energy, a reduction of chemical pollution and an optimization of the yield per hectare. All this through technology and “aerial” monitoring, with drones that guess, plant by plant, what the real energy needs are, also indicating to the tractor running in the field where to dispense more or less fertilizer. Equivalent methodology for water sprinklers or for pest control. The project provides for weekly aerial monitoring, which returns data to be studied based on crop and soil type.
The Coldiretti oscars were promoted on the International Day of Awareness on Food Losses and Waste proclaimed by the United Nations, on the occasion of Youth4Climate which anticipates the meeting of ministers of COP26, the UN world conference on climate change scheduled in Glasgow by the 1 to 12 November.
(Unioneonline / vl)
