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Fruit experiment station Tetti Grondana

The experimental facilities Tetti Grondana is located in Chieri and is distributed over 12 hectares.
It was acquired by the University in 1966, and since then it has been used for experimental activities and for educational purposes.
It hosts a vast collection of both native and international fruit trees, including rare or endangered species.

Currently, there are about 800 accessions on the farm (254 apple cultivars, 110 peach trees, 120 cherry trees, 38 pear trees, 30 apricot trees, 60 plum trees, 60 almond trees, 33 walnut trees, and 90 hazelnut trees) of which about 50% is made up of native Piedmontese plant material.
The fruits of the collections are used as samples in pomological exhibitions set up for conferences and meetings at national level.
There are also collections of vines (of which 50 for wine and over 30 for table), mulberry, and other minor fruit varieties, and a vineyard of Freisa Doc (2000 square meters).

The facilities are equipped with a building used as a warehouse, a cold room for storing fruit and a garage for the storage of large agricultural machinery (tractors, atomizers, etc.); there is also an area used as a nursery of about 2500 square meters, a small greenhouse used for the propagation of dried fruit species (walnut, hazel, chestnut) and a meteorological station model MeteoSense 2.0 GPRS equipped with an anemometer, rain gauge, thermo-hygrometer, barometer and radiometer.


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