project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Optimisation of the Segre Valley fertilisation plan in the Alt Urgell-Cerdanya area
Optimitzación del plan de fertilitzación de la vall del Segre en la zona Alt Urgell-Cerdanya
Objectives
-Establish a joint management system for livestock waste from dairy and beef cattle among the members of the Pyrenean Cooperative.
-Optimise the fertilisation of farms by implementing of a pilot mobile settling system.
-Carry out a thorough characterisation of the soils and livestock waste in L’Alt Urgell and La Cerdanya in order to provide fertilisation advice technicians with the tools necessary for efficient decision-making.
-Reduce transportation costs and the carbon footprint.
-Assess ammonia emissions throughout the livestock waste management chain in farms in the pilot project as well as the dynamics of soil nutrients.
-Revitalise local agriculture and livestock.
Objectives
-Establecer un sistema de gestión conjunta de las deyecciones ganaderas de bovino de leche y de carne.
-Mejorar la fertilización de las parcelas agrícolas mediante un sistema piloto de decantación móvil.
-Realizar una caracterización exhaustiva de los suelos y las deyecciones del Alto Urgell y la Cerdaña para dotar a los técnicos de asesoramiento en fertilización de las herramientas necesarias para tomar las decisiones más adecuadas.
-Reducir los costes de transporte y huella de carbono.
-Valorar las emisiones de amoníaco que se producen en la cadena de gestión de las deyecciones ganaderas , así como la dinámica de nutrientes del suelo.
-Revitalizar la agricultura y la ganadería local.
Activities
The proposed strategy aims to lease mobile manure settlers to concentrate nitrogen and phosphorus from livestock waste in the solid fraction and thus reduce transportation costs by reducing transported volumes and increasing their concentrations.
The decanted product would then be sent to farms deficient in livestock manure.
To ensure the technicians in the operational group and the livestock waste management centre have all the necessary parameters for decision-making, analyses of soils and livestock manure will be carried out through the University of Lleida Soil and Water Research Group.
The same Research Group, will carry out a study on ammonia emissión recovery and soil ntruient dynamics.
Activities
La estrategia es alquilar un equipo móvil (decantador de deyecciones) para concentrar el nitrógeno y el fósforo de las deyecciones ganaderas a la fracción solida de éstas y poder así reducir los costes de transporte al reducir los volúmenes a transportar e incrementando su densidad.
Éste producto decantado se haría llegar a las explotaciones deficitarias en deyecciones ganaderas.
Para que los técnicos dispongan todos los datos necesarios para la toma de decisiones, el “Grup Operativo de Recerca Sòls i Aigües" de la Universitat de Lleida realizará análisis de suelos y deyecciones.
El mismo Grupo Operativo llevará a cabo un estudio de las emisiones de amoníaco i de la dinámica de nutrientes del suelo.
Context
The Pirenaica SCCL cooperative is located in the Pyrenees in an area largely covered by the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya regions, a less well-off area, strongly influenced by its relief.
Traditional dairy farming is a major activity in the area, but the difficulty in adapting to new, increasingly restrictive regulations has led to a search for joint solutions to enable the sector to continue.
The aim of this pilot project is to test a joint mobile livestock waste management system, which will improve management and optimise the fertilisation plan for the study area, consisting of L’Alt Urgell and La Cerdanya.
This project is a commitment to restructuring intensive livestock farms in these regions, modernising them by incorporating new technologies for livestock waste treatment, recovering this by-product and driving the development of the bioeconomy.
The resulting by-product will improve soil structure, thereby preventing erosion, with better water use and a reduction in greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions. At the same time, it will be a major source of nutrients for areas those most deficient in livestock waste and will boost the local economy.
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
- Girona
- Other geographical location
- Lleida
€ 163000
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