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project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group

Innovative forest plantations: establish plantations meeting social expectations in forests and poplar stands of the Grand Est region

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Completed | 2019 - 2023 France
Completed | 2019 - 2023 France

Context

La forêt représente 1/3 du territoire régional du Grand Est. La plantation est un outil majeur pour garantir la pérennité des forêts. Au cours de la dernière décennie, des progrès techniques ont sensiblement fait évoluer les pratiques de plantation. La mécanisation des travaux de préparation des parcelles est à l'origine de nombre de ces innovations techniques ayant permis ces avancées. La mécanisation des travaux a également
permis de développer des méthodes alternatives aux herbicides. Néanmoins, au-delà de ces innovations qui ont permis l'amélioration des performances techniques et économiques de la plantation, plusieurs difficultés majeures subsistent et qui relèvent principalement des attentes sociétales et environnementales des différents acteurs concernés par la plantation forestière.

Objectives

This project aims to develop plantation methods meeting social expectations in forest and poplar plantations:
1/ bringing social expectations and planting pratices together
2/ reduce the arduousness of work and improve ergonomics
3/ reduce environmental impacts of practices

Activities

1 - Conducting surveys on a large target audience
2 - Development of communication tools on forest plantations
3 - Evaluation of planting techniques and use of new materials to reduce the arduousness of contractors during the mechanical preparation of the soil, planting and its maintenance, carrying out simulations and experiments in the field.
4 - Setting up experimentations to determine alternative methods to glyphosate in populiculture and methods that limit the environmental impacts of mechanized preparation

Project details
Main funding source
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
Rural Development Programme
2014FR06RDRP041 France - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Lorraine
Location
Main geographical location
Meurthe-et-Moselle

EUR 1 072 568.00

Total budget

Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.

Project keyword

Resources

1 Practice Abstracts

Various deliverables will be produced (article, online platform, technical synthesis) to synthesize informations obteined with the surveys, research and experiments about :

- the representations of the forest, climate change and plantation by forest owners and the general public

- proposals for improvements/specifications to improve the staking out of planting lines, the handling of plants on the site, to improve the ergonomics of the planter or the comfort of the driver's cab of excavators

- proposals of alternatives to glyphosate for poplar production

- characterization of the impacts of mechanical soil preparation in different conditions

- dissemination of information thanks to an online forest renewal portal

Contacts

Project coordinator

  • Catherine Collet, INRAE Grand Est - Nancy

    Project coordinator

    catherine.collet@inrae.fr +33383394043 Rue d'Amance, 54 280 Champenoux
         Research institute

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