CIMA technologies for vineyard: forty years of history

For over forty years, CIMA has been taking care of crops by building low-volume pneumatic sprayers and pesticide dusters. The company was born in the heart of the Pavia province, initially dedicated to the protection of the area’s vineyards, then spreading its technology on the Italian market and adapting equipment to the different forms of vineyard cultivation, such as the canopy method.

Since the early 1970s the company has been bringing its products to the most popular table grape production areas in Puglia, a region that this year (together with Sicily) hosted from October 1 to 7 the eighth edition of the International Symposium on Table Grapes.

In the 1980s, the South African market was among the first to appreciate the CIMA brand for the protection of table grapes. The field trials carried out in the country confirmed the high quality of the CIMA solutions. As the company emphasizes with an information note, this experience gave CIMA the confidence to offer its equipment in the main table grape producing countries, gaining positive feedback first in Egypt and the Middle East, then in farther countries and continents. With its range of carried and towed misters designed specifically to reduce size and to work optimally in canopy vineyards, the Pavia company meets the needs of modern farmers, who are always mindful of targeted and efficient treatments, always looking for time and operational savings. However, in CIMA’s experience, the Indian example is the most significant: from the first scouting visits in Maharashtra in 2011 to the design of specific pneumatic sprayers for use on table grapes with low-power tractors, CIMA contributed to the development of agricultural mechanization in the region, and the company has more ambitious goals: the recent trials in southern Spain are bringing new solutions to table grape growers, increasingly focused on sustainability and environmental protection.