project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Integration of biological resources in horticultural production
Integración de recursos biológicos en la producción hortícola
Context
Three pilot trials are conducted to implement more environmentally friendly production strategies by reducing the use of pesticides, water and fertilizers: 1) ecological infrastructures to host natural enemies, mainly in open-air tomato and lettuce; 2) host plants to transfer the predator Macrolophus pygmaeus between successive greenhouse tomato crops; 3) optimization of fertigation with the addition of arbuscular mycorrhizas. The results aim to promote a sustainable agriculture that produces added value local food.
Objectives
The specific objectives are:
1. To improve biological control by using ecological infrastructures to host predators.
2. To reduce the use of fertilizers with the addition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Objectives
Los objetivos específicos del proyecto son:
1. Mejorar el control biológico mediante la conservación de depredadores gracias a la utilización de infraestructuras ecológicas.
2. Reducir el uso de fertilizantes mediante la incorporación de hongos formadores de micorrizas arbusculares.
Activities
1. Evaluation of ecological infrastructures with plants of Calendula officinalis and Lobularia marítima, for biological control in tomato, lettuce, onions and artichokes
2. Set up a method to use temporary ecological infrastructures with Calendula officinalis for the transfer of the predator Macrolophus pygmaeus between crops of tomatoes
3. Evaluation of arbuscular mycorrhizas to favour the establishment of plants within ecological infrastructures
4. Optimization of the use of organic and mineral fertilizers in combination with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Activities
1. Se evaluarán las infraestructuras ecológicas de plantas de Calendula officinalis y Lobularia marítima en el control biológico por conservación en tomate, lechuga, cebolla y alcachofa
2. Se valorará el uso de plantas relevo de Calendula officinalis para favorecer el traspaso del depredador Macrolophus pygmaeus entre cultivos sucesivos de tomate
3. Se evaluarán las micorrizas para favorecer el establecimiento de plantas insectario en las infraestructuras ecológicas
4. Se optimizará el uso de fertilizantes orgánicos y minerales en combinación con hongos formadores de micorrizas arbusculares.
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
- Barcelona
EUR 220 040.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Josep M. Monfort i Bolívar
Project coordinator