project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Increase the productive and economic output of cherry tree cultivation by means of new architecture systems
Incremento del rendimiento productivo y económico del cultivo de cerezo mediante nuevos sistemas de arquitectura
Context
One of the main problems currently affecting cherry tree cultivation is the high management costs involved. Some 80% of the costs associated with cultivating cherry trees are related to maintenance tasks such as thinning and collecting the thinned foliage. It is also a crop that takes a long time to become fully productive (after the tree is 3 years old), which means that adapting the crop to the demanding needs of a constantly changing market is extremely difficult.
One of the solutions proposed is to work on young developing trees in which production starts at a very early stage; based on these solutions, trees that obtain an advanced productivity yield can be obtained by evaluating the application of various training techniques. In addition, the selective modification of their training creates a crop with more uniform characteristics, which provides more standardised harvests and qualities of fruit, in terms of their calibres and ripeness.
That is why this pilot project aims to influence the management systems in the initial training in cherry tree cultivation to achieve simpler management with lower financial and labour costs, while simultaneously producing a harvest of uniform fruit in terms of quantity and quality; and also impacting on the crop's early entry into production.
Objectives
The project objectives are:
-Develop simple pruning techniques by means of vertical training on main branches which increase production per m2.
-Optimise and simplify management, by means of standardised training that reduces the need for manual thinning.
-Reduce the use of phytosanitary treatments by creating "wall" type training that ensures a smaller amount of product covers a larger treated area.
-Assess improvements associated with fruit quality resulting from these new types of training.
-Attempt to bring forward the beginning of production of young crops, prioritising developments that promote this earliness.
- Assess the economic impact of the new management
- Transfer the results
Objectives
Los objectivos son:
- Desarrollar técnicas de poda sencilla, mediante formaciones verticales sobre ramas principales que aumenten la producción por m2.
- Optimizar el manejo, mediante formaciones estandarizadas que reduzcan la necesidad de realizar un aclareo manual.
- Reducir el uso de fitosanitarios mediante el establecimiento de formaciones tipo "pared" que garanticen cubrir una mayor superficie con menos producto.
- Evaluar mejoras en la calidad del fruto inducidas por estos nuevos tipos de formación.
- Fomentar la entrada en producción de cultivos jóvenes, priorizando desarrollos que fomenten esta precocidad.
- Evaluar el impacto económico del nuevo manejo
- Difusión de los resultados
Activities
The specific actions are:
• Action 1: Assessment of the state of the current training systems and the costs associated with each management method, as well as their productive output.
• Action 2: Changes in the training system will be made based on three initial training systems (KGB, UFO and Spanish VAS), as well as trees of different ages.
• Action 3: Assessment of the development of the crop and its phenology in each campaign associated with this project, in addition to deciding whether the new training methods bring about production earlier and/or enhance the earliness of the varieties.
Increase the productive and economic output of cherry tree cultivation by means of
Activities
Acciones específicas:
• Evaluación de los sistemas actuales de formación realizados y los costes asociados a cada manejo, así como su rendimiento.
• Partiendo de 3 sistemas de formación ,KGB, UFO y VAS español ,y de árboles de diferente edad, se harán cambios encaminadas a nuevos sistemas de formación.
• Evaluación del desarrollo del cultivo y su fenología en cada una de las campañas asociadas a este proyecto, además de inferir si las nuevas propuestas de formación consiguen adelantar la entrada en producción y / o la precocidad de las variedades.
• Se evaluará si cada una de las propuestas de formación desarrolladas consiguen incidir sobre la calidad y el rendimiento productivo.
• Evaluación económica.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP009 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Cataluña
Location
- Main geographical location
- Lleida
EUR 199550.2
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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SAT BEPA
Project coordinator