British poinsettia agriculturist selected the region of Latina , 80 km to the south of Rome , for this twelvemonth ’s sketch circuit ( 12th – 14th November 2018 ) . This rural area is a centre for all kinds of horticultural production and its eatable and cosmetic produce are distributed all over the area and exported to northern Europe .
Lazio ProvinceThe state of Lazio is in the coastal region around Rome with a universe of 5.9 M ( of which the city of Rome is about half ) . Within this state is Latina with half a million inhabitants and around the metropolis of Latina is the heart of Italian gardening in many flesh : vegetable , flowers , fruit , cheese , sugar and ornamental plants , of course .
The Latina area is in some ways redolent of Spalding , in that it was a marsh arena drained in mod meter to make it available for agriculture . Under plans developed by the government in the 1920 ’s led by Mussolini the landed estate was better and large scale yield opened up to provide jobs and business sector for a relatively unpopulated domain . Over 2000 km of ditches and drain have been ramp up .
Due to the coastal locating , the climate avoids extremes of summer temperature with an August average maximum of 31 ° C and winter lower limit around 3 ° coke and relatively high-pitched rainfall of 83 cm coming mostly in the winter . Even in the winter light grade are naturally high and no absorption lighting is used , even on vernal plant production . Poinsettias being finished at this time without heat but they will have to protect the afterwards maturing crops . The twenty-four hour period duration is very similar to the British at present tense and the starting time of innovation also exchangeable making the stage of adulthood await very familiar to UK agriculturist .
Protected ornamentalsMuch of the current horticultural production is under polythene structures with some glass and a prominent orbit of outdoor production for ‘ Mediterranean plant ’ . The large caller that the grower visited , some of the 90 + producers in the area , extended to many hectare of cut across and uncovered nurseries with a wide range of pot crop focusing on annual plants in the early part of the year follow by gravid cyclamen and even great poinsettias . About 17 M painted leaf are raise in Italy and a large pct ( 3M+ ) in the Latina area . Many of these plants are prominent size and so the total employee turnover in the lobster plant product manufacture could be as much as € 110M. There is some discussion about the European conference condition of Italy in terminus of numbers of plants grown but in relation to the turnover of the trade wind , they must be second after Germany .
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