Harmonious Viticulture: sustainability principles in Piedmont wine area
The main objective is to increase the wine prduction process sustainability through the cooperation between farmers, research sector and advisors. This proposal defines a shared and sustainability-oriented model for the vineyard management process. This model concerns every aspect that has a potential impact on water resources, focusing on defense (carried out on the information provided by a Decision Support System – vite.net®). This model aims also at measuring the impact on water resources, defining a sustainability certification that could add market value for the involved wineries.
The project aims to increase sustainability in wine-growing practices, through cooperation between winegrowers in different areas; a shared model of vineyard management oriented towards "sustainability"is the focus; the impacts on the water, caused by the treatments, are analyzed with attention and the project proposes the use of DSS vite.net to limit them. The model intends to stimulate innovation of the sector and measure the effects on the environment to translate them into a certification of sustainability; the aim is to enhance the final product and consolidate virtuous practices for the reduction of impacts, also through application of territorial guidelines and product specifications.
Pilot companies come from a productive sector characterized by a clear fragmentation and by a small average extension (about 10 ha), where more than a quarter of the companies conducts less than 1 ha and most of them (63%) conducts less than 5 ha. This fragmentation causes a limited financial capacity and difficulties in the communication between research sector and beneficiaries (farmers), who have to face the complexity of agronomic factors linked to disease restraint. This proposal will provide free access to DSS vite.net for the partner farmers. Traditionally, monitoring process aimed at define the best intervention timing is based on direct observation of phenological and weather parameters. Today, farmers can rely on innovative decision support systems (DSS) that can help them to make decisions based on scientific evidences and to confront the complex vineyard management process (on principles of integrated management, thus reducing environmental and health impact)
Introducing a Decision Support System in the defense strategies management process. The DSS, thanks to a disease onset risk evaluation, enables to rationalize intervention timing and (in case of risk low) to choose non-chemicals alternatives to agrochemicals , to reduce the amount of copper distributed and to reduce the number of machinery intervention, thus enhancing soil quality.
Introducing new evaluation methodologies concerning the disease onset risk and the expected effectiveness of agrochemical interventions, thanks to a mobile app
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