Vegetable Food Industry, Satakunta Region, Finland

Challenges:

Vegetable farms, food processing industry and circular bioeconomy companies operate in the Satakunta region, Finland, but the value chains require optimisation. Knowledge is needed on resolving risks such as pests and pathogens in residue streams and on new possibilities for converting processing streams into fertiliser products and soil improvers.

Solutions:

The Living Lab will work to develop a biotechnical solution for either the vegetable food production process or the post-treatment process to manage the defined challenges of the residue streams. The Living Lab will involve actors from across the vegetable value chain, such as vegetable farms, food processing industry, producers of bio-based recycled fertilisers and biogas plant together with the Biopaja Lighthouse, a hub for testing, development and implementation of biomass processing and fertiliser production.

Lighthouse:

Luke Natural Resources Institute Finland
Biopaja is Luke’s experimental facility in Jokioinen. In Biopaja, various solutions can be tested to study and demonstrate the nutrient and organic matter recycling of different biomasses. Luke works with and serves stakeholders in developing and adopting recycled fertilisers, renewable energy and other value-added products.

Outcomes:

Co-creating innovations in the side stream processing chain to reduce the risk of biological contamination (pests and pathogens) in vegetable residue streams to produce safe and tailored fertiliser products and soil improvers to improve soil health.

Replicability:

Results will be applicable to respective vegetable value and food chains with similar challenges in EU and beyond.

Living Lab Coordinator:

Field visit to Rapi experimental farm

Regional Working Group (RWG)

Overview:

The Finnish RWG operates in the active farming regions of Satakunta and Varsinais-Suomi. Grain, oilseed and vegetable farming, as well as poultry and pig farming, sit alongside fertiliser, biogas and animal feed industries, creating many opportunities to enhance the reuse of nutrients. As soils in this area are losing carbon, the group is focusing on returning organic materials from the food industry to the soil. Universities, public bodies, farmers’ organisations and businesses work together to support Finland’s Bioeconomy Strategy 2022–2035 and make soil management climate-friendly by 2035.

Coordinator:

LUKE Natural Resources Institute Finland logo

Members:

Results

Impacts on Soil Health of Soil Improvers Derived from Agri-Food Processing Residues: a Systematic Review with a Focus on European Field Studies

Authors: Caldara, Marina; Di Gregorio, Luciana; Sarvi, Minna; Bindo, Arianna;Salo Tapio; Nolfi Lorenzo; Costanzo Manuela; Lamanna, Giuseppe; Scanferla, Giuseppe; Varese, Giovanna Cristina; Bernini, Roberta; Palojarvi, Ansa; Marmiroli, Nelson ; Bevivino, Annamaria

The relevance of biochar and co-applied SynComs on maize quality and sustainability: Evidence from field experiments

Authors: Mariolina Gullì, Lisa Cangioli Sarah Frusciante, Sara Graziano, Marina Caldara, Alessia Fiore, Alexandra M. Klonowski, Elena Maestri, Andrea Brunori, Alessio Mengoni, Anne Pihlanto, Gianfranco Diretto, Nelson Marmiroli, Annamaria Bevivino

Integrated Assessment of Soil Improvers and Microbiome-Based Solutions for Soil Health Across European Agro-Environmental Zones

Annamaria Bevivino, Silvia Tabacchioni, Andrea Visca, Luciana Di Gregorio, Manuela Costanzo, Arianna Bindo, Lorenzo Nolfi, Andrea Brunori, Nicola Colonna,ENEA; Nelson Marmiroli, Caterina Agrimonti, Marina Caldara, Sara Graziano, Giuseppe Lamanna, Vittorio Scanferla, CINSA; Minna Sarvi, Tapio Salo, Ansa Palojärvi, LUKE; Pedro Federico Rizzo, Enric Garcia, Beta technological center Uvic-UCC; Avelino Álvarez Ordóñez, José Francisco Cobo Díaz, Marcia Patricia De Sousa Oliveira, ULE

Pelletising as by-product development technology for bio-based soil improvers

Citizen Factsheet: Healthy soils in Finland (English)

Citizen Factsheet: Terve maaperä Suomessa (Finnish)

Delivering safe and accepted soil fertilisers in Finland: insights from SWOT and PESTLE analysis

Authors: Edyta Waluś Magdalena Andrunik Marzena Smol Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

Industry Factsheet: Circular soil solutions in Finland (English)

Mapping funding mechanisms to support circular soil improvers from food side streams

Ronald A. Farrar-Tobar,  Marina Ettl, Ludwig Hermann. Proman Management GmbH

DeliSoil Project Factsheet (Finnish)

Finland flagThe DeliSoil project aims to demonstrate improved operations to produce recycled soil improvers and bring safe, regulated, sustainable fertiliser products to market and promote their use.

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