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Sustainable system for best tomato and maize production - Susybest
Sustainable system for best tomato and maize production - Susybest

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Completed | 2020 - 2023 Italy
Completed | 2020 - 2023 Italy
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Context

The scenario outlined by climate change sets the priorities, among other things, to control the consumption of natural resources (water above all) to avoid impoverishment and to limit the anthropic environmental inputs that produce pollution and impact on the environmental balance.
The Po Valley shows the highest share of climate-alternate emissions originating from the agricultural sector (60% of CO2eq emissions of Italian agriculture).
Emilia Romagna shows broad vulnerability to nitrate water pollution. For groundwater values above the threshold of drinking water on 10% of the reliefs.
The regional distribution of pesticides per hectare of SAU saw an increase in 2015 compared to 2013.
In the Region, the first irrigated cereal is maize (57,170 ha) and the first vegetable cultivation is industrial tomato (24,125 ha).

Objectives

A Decision Support System (DSS) integrated with forecasting models for Defense, Irrigation, Fertigation, Crop Development able to provide knowledge tools to all levels of intervention to act in a targeted manner on the territory in the prevention and solution of the main production problems. A new paradigm capable of considering the quantitative and qualitative potential of the productions and therefore the economic sustainability and the consequent real applicability on the part of farmers. A non-impositive, but collaborative and participatory approach made explicit through the interoperable systems between prediction models, and through the effective and easily usable tools.

Objectives

Un sistema di supporto alle decisioni (DSS) integrato con modelli di previsione per Difesa, Irrigazione, Fertirrigazione, Sviluppo delle colture in grado di fornire strumenti di intervento per agire in modo mirato sul territorio nella prevenzione e soluzione dei principali problemi della produzione. Un nuovo paradigma in grado di considerare il potenziale quantitativo e qualitativo delle produzioni e quindi la sostenibilità economica e la conseguente reale applicabilità da parte degli agricoltori. Un approccio non impositivo, ma partecipativo reso esplicito attraverso i sistemi interoperabili tra i modelli di previsione e attraverso gli strumenti efficaci e facilmente utilizzabili.

Activities

Predictive Models: Defense for tomato and corn with the additional supply parameter due by the control of the "coverage" of interventions; Irrigation and Fertirrigation based on Irrinet-Irriframe system from ANBI-CER; estimation of phenology and production. Integration to develop the interaction and collaboration between the forecasting components.
Evaluation of Varietal and Seeding / Transplantation period choices for the mitigation of the effects of climate change.
DSS Platform to manage and control, identifying correlations between environment, crops, practices, quality data to fine-tune strategies to minimize inputs, maximize production results and improve sustainability.

Activities

Modelli predittivi: difesa di pomodoro e mais con parametri aggiuntivi di "copertura" degli interventi; Irrigazione e fertirrigazione basate sul sistema Irrinet-Irriframe di ANBI-CER; stima della fenologia e della produzione. Sviluppo dell'interazione e la collaborazione tra i componenti di previsione.
Valutazione delle scelte del periodo varietale e di semina / trapianto per mitigare gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici.
Piattaforma DSS per la gestione e il controllo, identificando le correlazioni tra ambiente, colture, pratiche, dati di qualità per ottimizzare le strategie per ridurre al minimo gli input, massimizzare i risultati di produzione e migliorare la sostenibilità.

Project details
Main funding source
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
Rural Development Programme
2014IT06RDRP003 Italy - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Emilia-Romagna
Location
Main geographical location
Ravenna
Other geographical location
Ferrara

EUR 398710.08

Total budget

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

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