project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Optimisation of the fertilisation plan for the Segre Valley in the Alt Urgell-Cerdanya area
Optimitzación del plan de fertilitzación de la vall del Segre en la zona Alt Urgell- Cerdanya
Context
The growing need for proper management of livestock manure generated in our regions has led the cooperative to invest in a comprehensive management system for livestock by-products, recovering them as organic fertilisers.
The key point is to concentrate the nitrogen and phosphorus in livestock manure into a solid product, which reduces transport costs. This would make our livestock farming more competitive and sustainable.
Objectives
- Establishing a joint management system for livestock waste from dairy and beef cattle belonging to members of the cooperative Pirenaica SCCL.
- Optimising the fertilisation of agricultural fields in the Alt Urgell-Cerdanya area carried out by Pirenaica, by implementing a pilot mobile decanting system.
- Carrying out a thorough characterisation of the soils and manure in L’Alt Urgell and La Cerdanya to provide fertilisation advisers.
- Reducing transport costs and the carbon footprint in applying livestock manure.
- Assessing ammonia emissions from the entire livestock manure management chain at the farms.
- Revitalising local agriculture and livestock farming.
Objectives
- Establecer un sistema de gestión conjunta de las deyecciones ganaderas provenientes de vacuno de leche y vacuno de carne de los socios de la Cooperativa Pirenaica.
- Optimizar la fertilización de las parcelas agrícolas en la zona del Alt Urgell y La Cerdanya llevada a cabo por la Cooperativa Pirenaica.
- Realizar una caracterización exhaustiva de los suelos y deyecciones del Alt Urgell y La Cerdanya.
- Reducir los costes de transporte y la huella de carbono en la aplicación de las deyecciones ganaderas.
- Valorar las emisiones de amoníaco que se producen en toda la cadena de gestión de las deyecciones ganaderas de las explotaciones.
- Revitalizar la agricultura y la ganadería local.
Activities
The objective of the proposed strategy was to rent mobile equipment (a manure decanter) to concentrate nitrogen and phosphorus from livestock manure in the solid fraction of the manure and thus reduce transport costs by reducing the volumes transported and increasing their concentrations.
The project focuses on improving the management of livestock manure to achieve competitive and sustainable livestock farming throughout the operational group area of influence, where livestock
manure is not an inconvenience or a waste product to be disposed of, but is recovered as a resource. This is also a necessary measure, so as to improve the yield from farms lacking livestock manure.
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
- Other geographical location
- Girona
EUR 114 100.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Pirenaica SCCL
Project coordinator