project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Innovative organic matrices from compost and biochar for sustainable viticulture - Enochar
Kontext
Il cambiamento climatico sta trasformando il suolo da bacino di stoccaggio del carbonio a fonte di emissioni. In aree dell’Europa meridionale l'incremento delle temperature contribuisce a decomposizione e mineralizzazione della materia organica, riducendo ulteriormente il contenuto di carbonio organico, con gravi conseguenze sulla produzione.
Diversi studi hanno classificato come poveri di SO più del 50% dei terreni coltivati regionali, con valori anche al di sotto dell’1%. Per garantire adeguati livelli produttivi, si ricorre, pertanto, a continue integrazioni con fertilizzanti sintetici (il cui abuso è una minaccia per l’ambiente). Ad aggravare tale contesto contribuiscono crisi energetica, difficoltà di approvvigionamento e incremento dei costi delle materie prime, producendo un aumento dei prezzi dei fertilizzanti. I viticoltori si scontrano, inoltre, sempre più spesso con estati torride-siccitose, in cui cambiamenti nella fotosintesi influenzano negativamente la qualità delle uve. Il fabbisogno idrico tocca il suo apice proprio quando la disponibilità di acqua è minima e la competizione con altri settori produttivi massima. È, pertanto, necessario promuovere soluzioni che apportino tangibili riscontri in termini di redditività, nel rispetto dell’ambiente. L’interramento di nuove matrici organiche ammendanti (compost e/o biochar), ottenute da sottoprodotti e scarti della filiera agro-alimentare, è una strategia vincente per rispondere al cambio climatico. Consente, infatti, di mitigarne gli effetti, riducendo il rilascio di inquinanti (es. prodotti di sintesi, CO2), migliorando fertilità e capacità di ritenzione idrica del suolo e produzione vitivinicola.
Objectives
The general objective of the Plan is to implement and transfer innovative soil management techniques to wine producers, such as the application of new organic soil improver (compost, biochar and CB mix) that can increase CO2 storage, fertility and the water retention capacity of the soil, reduce the release of pollutants into the environment and induce greater resistance to diseases, for a sustainable viticulture, capable of adapting and mitigating the climatic changes, with a view to circular economy.
Activities
The Project Activities include:
- Exercise of Cooperation;
- Evaluation of the effects induced by the application of innovative organic matrices in the vineyard on SOIL, VINES and WINE;
- Evaluation of the balance of CO2 emissions in vineyards following the distribution of innovative organic soil improvers;
- Creation of demo farms and illustration of specific guidelines related to innovation at the producers belonging to the GO;
- Social inclusion through the principles of sustainable viticulture;
- Dissemination;
- Training.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014IT06RDRP003 Italy - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Emilia-Romagna
Ort
- Main geographical location
- Ravenna
- Other geographical location
- Forlì-Cesena, Ferrara
EUR 229958.75
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Project keyword
2 Practice Abstracts
The activities carried out within this Plan have produced the following innovative results:
• Objective information on the effects of applying innovative organic soil amendment matrices (compost and biochar) on soil, vines, and wine;
• Evaluation of the CO2 emissions balance in vineyards following the distribution of innovative organic soil amendment matrices;
• Definition of guidelines for the correct application of innovative organic soil amendment matrices in vineyards aimed at:
- increasing the organic matter content in soils;
- preserving water resources in the soil;
- promoting microbial activity in the soil;
- increasing carbon sequestration in the soil by reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere;
- reducing the use of mineral fertilizers, particularly nitrogen-based ones;
- improving the absorption capacity of nutrients by the vines;
- improving the quality of grapes and wine according to sustainability principles;
- addressing the concerns of producers who are cautious or skeptical
- about the use of such matrices.
• Creation of a dissemination, training, and social inclusion program aimed at promoting the concepts of sustainability and circular economy.
• Training program that conveyed the concepts of highly sustainable agronomic management, focused on preserving water, soil, reducing pollutant releases, and mitigating the effects of climate change.
The Plan aims to reduce/eliminate the release of pollutants connected to the use of synthetic products in the vineyard in a context of climate change; develop agronomic strategies for adaptation to climate change that favor the increase of organic matter and soil water capacity; mitigate the effect of climate change, reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere; assess the environmental sustainability of the innovative agronomic strategies applied through LCA; maximize the efficiency of the microbial resources of cultivated soils to improve functionality and health, useful also to crop health (reduction of defense interventions); improve the quality of wine production; convey the importance of sustainability in agriculture and a transition towards a circular economy.
The innovative matrices will allow winegrowers to rationalize soil management and water supply and to reduce the costs associated with the application of synthetic fertilizers. At the same time, the soil will be protected from erosion, pollution and decline in fertility, through a greater sequestration of CO2, with a view to adaptation and mitigation with respect to climate change. The improved vegetative-productive balance and health status of the vines will limit the distribution of defense products, reducing the operator's exposure to the risks associated with the use of pesticides.
Winegrowers will be able to make use of knowledge and materials that can give strong propulsion in terms of sustainability to their production activities and to better characterize them, as well as to explore other areas of action, thanks to the expansion of their business offer.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Ri.Nova Soc. Coop.
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Project partner
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Astra Innovazione e Sviluppo
Project partner
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Caviro Società Cooperativa Agricola
Project partner
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Dinamica S.C.ar.l.
Project partner