System and method for cutting and collecting vegetable products being cultivated soilless

A system for cutting and collecting vegetable products that are cultivated soilless on at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf, which has no growing media or substrates,

• the at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf has a base to which root portions of said vegetable products cling, and a cultivation face which is opposite the base and from which epigeal portions of said vegetable products extend,
• the cultivation face is provided with seats that house the root portions of the vegetable products without the interposition of any growing medium or substrate,
• said system comprising:
• a loading station designed to support said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf in an upside down position, wherein said base is arranged above said cultivation face so that said epigeal portions of the vegetable products extend from the cultivation face below the relative root portions so as to remain freely suspended and extended by gravity below said cultivation face itself;
• a cutting unit designed to cut the epigeal portions freely suspended below said cultivation face in order to separate them by gravity from the root portions clinging to said base of said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf;
• and
• a collection station designed to collect said epigeal portions cut by said cutting unit and separated by gravity from said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf.

A method for cutting and collecting a plurality of vegetable products cultivated on at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf, which has no growing media or substrates, wherein said cultivation shelf has a base to which root portions of said vegetable products are clinging, and a cultivation face which is opposite the base and from which the epigeal portions of said vegetable products extend,

• the cultivation face is provided with seats that house the root portions of the vegetable products without the interposition of any growing medium or substrate,
• said method comprising:
• supporting said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf in an upside down position with a loading station wherein said base is arranged above said cultivation face so that said epigeal portions of the vegetable products extend from the cultivation face below the relative root portions in order to remain freely suspended and extended by gravity below said cultivation face,
• cutting the epigeal portions freely suspended below said cultivation face by means of a cutting unit, in order to separate them by gravity from the root portions clinging to said base of said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf,
• collecting the epigeal portions cut by said cutting unit and separated by gravity from said at least one aeroponic cultivation shelf by a collection station.