project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
2018-002 - VEGETABLE PLAN. Sustainable collaborative diversification
Objectives
The project will address collaboration among a big distribution company (EROSKI) and local vegetables producers in the Basque Country with the common goal of diversifying productions, allowing to improve the profitability of the exploitations by increasing the offer. To achive this, a novel methodoloty is proposed, based on identifying crops that increase the perfomance of the exploitations and organoleptic quality of the products, reducing/avoiding the use of phytosanitary products. This will allow to reduct the product provisioning cycles and a better sector structure.
Activities
Description of phases and tasks:
PHASE 1: CROP IDENTIFICATION
- Crop interest identification
PHASE 2: CHARACTERIZATION OF CROPS
- Product types available
- Crop management
- Land selection
PHASE 3: DESIGN AND EXECUTION FIELD TEST
- Pilot test design
- Pilot test development
- Crop test analysis
PHASE 4: DESCRIPTION SYSTEM OF VARIETY CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFUSION
- System description
- Diffusion
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP015 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - País Vasco
Ort
- Main geographical location
- Vizcaya
- Other geographical location
- Álava, Guipúzcoa
EUR 65 840.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
9 Practice Abstracts
ENDIVE: Part 2
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- Smooth-leaf endives have been ruled out due to lack of commercial interest, and of all the curly-leaf varieties tested, it is proposed to carry out weekly trials for the summer season with the Myrna variety, the best valued of the entire trial.
ENDIVE: Part 1
The aim has been to achieve a variety that adapts correctly to the conditions of the terrain and climatologies of the Basque Country, and in turn allow to have a product in the months of May to August when there is little availability of it.
For endive, the endive cultivation technical sheet has been used as a cultivation technical sheet, taking into account nutritional needs, the main pests, available control strategies, soil management, etc.
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- The plantations are all carried out in open tunnels and using black ground cover plastic to improve the quality of the endive. The approximate planting frame is 11 units per square meter. An analysis of the average soil of all these tunnels has been carried out, the result of which only recommends the addition of organic matter, which is carried out prior to each planting with approximately 1 square meter of Oilur compost. No other background mineral contribution is added.
BROCCOLI:
As it is a fashionable product, a methodology has been developed to grow a quality and continuity product in the Basque Country, due to the sales potential of broccoli.
For broccoli, the Broccoli cultivation sheet has been used as a cultivation technical sheet, taking into account nutritional needs, the main pests, available control strategies, soil management, etc.
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- Broccoli plantations are grown outdoors. The 50 * 60cm planting frame has been used. The first 2 plantations are carried out without black plastic covering, resulting in loss of plants due to disease (phoma). Therefore, for the next 3 plantations, it was decided to cultivate with black biodegradable plastic cover. All the plantations have the addition of Oilur compost organic matter in a dose of approximately 1 kilo per square meter.
EGGPLANT:
Work has been done with a product of Basque Country origin to complement the local vegetable ranges and to diversify the productions, of which until now was unknown.
For the aubergine, on the one hand, an aubergine cultivation sheet was used for Barrenetxe and the other for the Lapikote test, taking into account the nutritional needs, the main pests, available control strategies, soil management, etc.
- The plantations of the 8 varieties of aubergine are grown in hydroponic perlite gutter, in multi-tunnel with automated ventilation temperature of 18º. The planting frame used, distance between rows 1,17 m and distance between guides within the line 0,5m, formation of each plant with two arms.
- The harvest is finished on October 29 with an average weight of 6,82 kg per commercial square meter.
- Of all the varieties tested, the choice is to use Teti and Samba as the typical variety suitable for consumption in the Basque Country.
SPRING ONION: Parte 2
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- Any of the white varieties is considered suitable for quality chives for the season tested and as for the red varieties, it is considered that the Red Monastrell is considered risky because it loses the green part of the chives quickly, which limits its commercial quality in the time.
- The white varieties with yellowish colors have been eliminated due to the low commercial interest for this time.
SPRING ONION: Part 1
They have wanted to extend the season of both white and red chives during the months of July, August and September.
For the chives, we have worked with an early production file of bunch onion as a technical file for cultivation, taking into account nutritional needs, the main pests, available control strategies, soil management, etc.
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- The plantations are carried out in open tunnels and use black plastic for ground cover for a better quality of the chives. The approximate planting frame is 30 units per square meter. An analysis of the average soil of all these tunnels has been carried out, the result of which only recommends the addition of organic matter that is carried out prior to each plantation with approximately 1 square kilo meter of Oilur compost. No other contribution of background mineral is added.
LEEK:
With this project it has been possible to complete the production cycle in order to be able to market this product in the months when this product is not available, that is, from March to June.
For the leek, it has been obtained from a Sheet for early leek production as a Technical Sheet for cultivation, taking into account nutritional needs, the main pests, available control strategies, soil management, etc.
Pilot tests have been carried out obtaining the following results:
- Almost all the commercial seed houses that work with leek offer varieties called precocious, with rapid growth. 3 options of cultivation techniques have been compiled that allow to obtain precocious productions.
Long cycle - sowing in July-August, planting in September-October, harvest April-May, Observations: very long cycle, grouped harvest and suddenly if there is no risk of blossoming.
Short cycle - January-February sowing in hot beds under a greenhouse, March-April plantation, May-June harvest. Observations: a commercial leek is obtained that is finer than the standard one, with a softer taste and less fibrous.
First, add that several actions have been carried out in the project, one of which has been the identification of crops.
In it, the crops of interest for the project have been selected, which in total have been 6 different vegetables:
- Leek
- Spring onion
- Eggplant
- Broccoli
- Endive
The criteria used for the selection of these crops has been the sales expectation that the product has in the market. Another of the criteria has been the future sales potential and also the level of knowledge that farmers in the area have in growing the products.
Next, the results obtained with each of the crops are described, the planting procedure used and the conclusions obtained.
The methodology that has been used is based on participatory action research, in which the farmers themselves have developed the characterization tests of the varieties with the advice of the technical research staff of NEIKER,
With this, it has been possible to allow farmers to have a deeper knowledge of the crop and to optimize its management (reduction of phytosanitary products and fertilizers,
In addition, thanks to the collaboration in the work between researchers and the farmers involved, an enrichment has been obtained between the know-how of the farmers themselves and the scientific-technical knowledge of the researchers,
On the other hand, the method used has allowed farmers to collaborate with each other, and obtain the results through joint work.
Once the main results obtained from the project are known, the following tabs will refer to the activity with each of the vegetables studied
Contacts
Project coordinator
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EROSKI, S.COOP
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Barrenetxe, S.Coop
Project partner
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Neiker, SA
Project partner
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Txomin Bilbao
Project partner