CHAMPI-ON

FULLY AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR PICKING AND HANDLING MUSHROOMS FOR THE FRESH MARKET: FROM THE GROWING BED TO THE COOLING STORAGE

Coordinatore	INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE    more  Organization address address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 KARELAS 59 city: KOROPI ATTIKIS postcode: 19400 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Panagiotis Cognome: Chatzakos Email: send email Telefono: 306977000000 Fax: 302107000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Sito del progetto	http://champi-on.eu/
Totale costo	1˙441˙950 €
EC contributo	1˙094˙759 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2010-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-02-01   -   2013-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE  Organization address address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 KARELAS 59 city: KOROPI ATTIKIS postcode: 19400 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Panagiotis Cognome: Chatzakos Email: send email Telefono: 306977000000 Fax: 302107000000	EL (KOROPI ATTIKIS)	coordinator	81˙328.80
2	GEOIMAGING LIMITED  Organization address address: GEORGIOU SEFERI STR 6 OFFICE 102 city: LEFKOSIA postcode: 1075 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Stratos Cognome: Stylianidis Email: send email Telefono: 35722447770 Fax: 35722374988	CY (LEFKOSIA)	participant	211˙825.12
3	Mush. Comb. B.V.  Organization address address: Stationsstraat 147 city: Hegelsom postcode: 5963AA contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bob Cognome: Holtermans Email: send email Telefono: 31773983929 Fax: 31773988299	NL (Hegelsom)	participant	209˙808.84
4	Pomeranian Mushrooms - Eco GroupSp. z o.o.  Organization address address: Pienieznica 76 city: Rzeczenica postcode: 77-304 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Piotr Cognome: Pakula Email: send email Telefono: +48 607984591 Fax: +48 598579920	PL (Rzeczenica)	participant	192˙248.98
5	INNOVAS MAKINA MUHENDISLIK VE DANISMANLIK HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARETLIMITED SIRKETI  Organization address address: KOSGEB SAKARAYA UNIVERSITESI TEKNOLOJI GELISTIRME MERKEZI SAKARAYA UNIVERSITESI ESENTEPE KAMPUSU city: SAKARYA postcode: 54055 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Meltem Cognome: çamalan Peker Email: send email Telefono: +90 264 346 04 74 Fax: +90 264 346 06 18	TR (SAKARYA)	participant	183˙040.03
6	CHADWICK MUSHROOM FARM LTD  Organization address address: TAS SALIB - LIMITI TAR RABAT city: RABAT postcode: RBT 4206 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Saviour Cognome: Gauci Email: send email Telefono: +356 21454254 Fax: 35621459686	MT (RABAT)	participant	182˙983.14
7	ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS CATALONIA, SA  Organization address address: CALLE VICTOR PRADERA 45 city: CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA postcode: 8940 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Albert Cognome: Nieto Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 204 99 22 Fax: +34 93 204 98 66	ES (CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA)	participant	18˙860.16
8	Nome Ente NON disponibile  Organization address address: Carretera Calahorra Km. 4 city: AUTOL postcode: 26560 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Margarita Cognome: Pérez Email: send email Telefono: 34941390960 Fax: 34941390961	ES (AUTOL)	participant	14˙664.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Mushroom growers are struggling to maintain benefit margins due to the globalization of agricultural markets, the increasing cost of raw materials/utilities and often the use of outdated and inefficient cultivation methods; it is no surprise that fresh mushrooms are often delivered under cost price, as manifested by SME participants. The consortium understands that technological innovation is the best option to maintain competitiveness and to keep an acceptable benefit margins for the growers, in line with overall agro sector trends: pursuing the technology-driven consolidation of the mushroom sector is a must for the survival of this industry. The white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) is the leading mushroom crop worldwide; of the 965 mil tonnes of these mushrooms produced in Europe over 2007, the 60% is sold fresh and the remainder are canned. Whereas for the canned industry mushrooms can be harvested and handled by an automated system, such automation does not yet exist for picking and handling mushrooms for the fresh market, due to the high quality standards required by this product: all mushroom in a tray should be of similar size and, above all, with no damage or blemish on its snow-white skin. Therefore, hand picking is the unique alternative, burdening producers with a cost accounting for between 20 and 46% of their total production costs, depending on the country. The suggested Champi-ON project aims developing a fully automated system for picking and handling mushrooms for the fresh market, bringing them from the growing bed to the cooling storage piled in trays, without causing any damage or blemish in the white skin mushroom. The system will implement under the same framework computer vision techniques, mechatronics and automation. Champi-ON will reduce the required labour for harvesting and handling fresh mushrooms by 80%.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers have built and tested an automated mushroom-picking machine to decrease the cost of mushroom production in this labour-intensive sector.