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Best4Soil
Best4Soil
Context
The importance of soilborne diseases of vegetable and field crops caused by pathogens and nematodes was evaluated by the EIP-AGRI Focus group “IPM practices for soil-borne diseases suppression in vegetables and arable crops” and a final report published: (http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/ipm-practices-soil-borne…). This Focus group was composed of growers, advisers from private companies and public services, and scientists from all over Europe and where therefore able to give a representative overview of the state of the art and the occurring development in the short and long run.
With the recent withdrawal of most chemical soil fumigants as well as some fungicides in Europe, the threat and actual damage of soilborne diseases to the sustainable production of vegetables and field crops is rapidly increasing.
Objectives
Healthy soils are of major importance for the future of the European crop production. Especially in intensive production systems, soilborne diseases are a major factor with a negative impact on soil health. Newly developed best practices and sound crop rotations permit to maintain, improve or re-establish soil health in Europe.The BEST4SOIL project will build a community of practice network across Europe by inter-connecting growers, advisers, educators and researchers. Through this network, knowledge ready for practice on 4 best practices for the control of soilborne diseases will be promoted.
Objectives
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Activities
As innovative tool will BEST4SOIL provide videos (youtube). Videos, databases and factsheets are edited in 22 official EU languages to facilitate the innovation management of practitioners throughout Europe. The information will be freely accessible to guarantee a smooth knowledge transfer from research to practice. BEST4SOIL will deploy local facilitators to set up a network with active communities of practice resulting in an intensive knowledge exchange. Project partners and facilitators in at least twelve more countries, the network will interconnect an important part of the European growers, advisers and educators, the main stakeholders of BEST4SOIL.
Additional comments
Soil health is at stake in many EU countries. Soil health is threathened by parasitic nematodes and soil born pathogens. Many farmers are not aware of this or miss the information about the actual situation on their farm. Soil sampling is a good instrument to assess the situation in the field. But soil sampling costs money, is mostly only carried out when problems in practice are encountered, and the services are not available everywhere in Europe.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Type of Horizon project
- Multi-actor project - Thematic network
Location
- Main geographical location
- Veluwe
EUR 1 998 299.00
Total budget
Total contributions including EU funding.
Project keyword
- Aquaculture
- Arable crops
- Organic farming
- Agro-ecology
- Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
- Pest/disease control in plants
- Pest/disease control in animals
- Fodder and feed
- Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
- Greenhouse crops
25 Practice Abstracts
conditions but general steps apply. Planning the rotation is balanced by management decisions at farm and field level on an annual and multi-year basis. The rotation is designed for each field and then
adjusted: to the amount of products you want to harvest from each crop in a year; to spread the risk evenly (income depending on
multiple crops); to meet the market demand. The following general steps apply: Determine whether you have problems with nematodes. Consider to apply soil analysis to determine the infestation level of plant parasitic nematodes. Consider the fungal pathogens you expect, since only a few can be analysed. Decide which cash crops you want to focus on and which varieties. Some varieties of the same crop can be less susceptible or even resistant for certain pests and diseases while others even multiply a nematode species. Make a first design and include the rotation of the past years. Use the Best4Soil online tool (www.best4soil.eu/database) to see which nematodes and soil
borne fungi are related to your crops and adjust your scheme: Alternate a host-plant by a non-host-plant for at least 1 crop cycle. Growing a crop which is sensitive to an expected or already present
nematode after a non-host plant, lowers the risk that the concerned nematode prevails. If you have a high infestation level of a certain nematode, consider how to reduce this. Be aware that certain species can be good prevention against one nematode or disease, but at the same time be susceptible to another.
van elk gewas in een jaar; om het risico gelijkmatig te spreiden (inkomen afhankelijk van meerdere gewassen); om aan de marktvraag te voldoen. De volgende algemene stappen zijn van toepassing: Ga na of u problemen heeft met aaltjes. Overweeg een bodemanalyse om de mate van aantasting door parasitaire aaltjes vast te stellen. Bedenk welke schimmelziekten u verwacht, want maar enkele kunnen geanalyseerd worden. Beslis welke hoofdgewassen je wilt telen en welke rassen. Sommige rassen van hetzelfde gewas zijn minder gevoelig of zelfs resistent voor sommige ziekten en plagen, terwijl anderen aaltjessoorten zelfs kunnen vermenigvuldigen. Maak een eerste ontwerp waarin je bij voorkeur boven de minimumfrequentie teelt (tabel 1). Neem ook de vruchtwisseling van de afgelopen jaren mee. Gebruik de Best4Soil online tool (https://www.best4soil.eu/database/nl) om te zien welke aaltjes en door bodem overdraagbare schimmels gerelateerd zijn aan je gewassen en pas je ontwerp aan: Wissel een waardplant af met een nietwaardplant voor minstens 1 teeltcyclus. Als het perceel een hoge besmettingsgraad heeft van een bepaald aaltje, bedenk hoe je dit
kunt verminderen. Wees u ervan bewust dat bepaalde soorten
goed kunnen zijn tegen één aaltje of ziekte, maar tegelijkertijd vatbaar zijn voor een ander.
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