Context
One of the main challenges of agriculture is to ensure a better quality of production, safeguarding environmental and economic sustainability.
One of the most important agricultural parts on the regional territory is certainly the wine sector and the vineyards occupy an important percentage of the hilly areas. The sustainable management of the vineyard therefore becomes one of the main steps to guarantee the environmental sustainability of these areas.
In this context, the VIP project is configured as an incubator of innovative technologies, procedures and practices of Precision Farming to be introduced in the wine sector, to improve the sustainable management of the vineyard. At the end of the project, a system will be available for the early and timely diagnosis of the causes of stress in the crop, able to direct interventions and, at the same time, to reduce the resources used, improving environmental sustainability thanks to the use of green technologies .
The project puts together, in a partnership, different realities (agriculture, industry, research, service companies) whose aim is to encourage the interaction between the partners in order to reach common goals and to develop soluctions that will be realised. Promotion and dissemination activities, that are part of the project, will have positive effects on the entire wine sector in Piedmont.
Objectives
The VI.P. aims to study, develop and experimentally verify the use of a system of diagnosis, prescription and then implementation of the interventions to be carried out on viticulture according to the real need, by applying the concept of Precision Agriculture, with the declared goal of improving productivity and allowing, at the same time, a reduction in the resources used. The focus will be on water stress, nutritional deficiencies and diseases. Multispectral analysis will be used to obtain thematic maps, then translated into prescription maps of the targeted interventions to be applied; these interventions will be carried out using low environmental impact machinery.
Objectives
Il progetto VI.P. si propone di studiare, sviluppare e verificare sperimentalmente l’uso di un sistema di diagnosi, prescrizione e realizzazione degli interventi da effettuarsi sulla viticoltura puntualmente, applicando il concetto di Agricoltura di Precisione, con l’obiettivo dichiarato di migliorare la produttività e consentendo, allo stesso tempo, un abbattimento delle risorse impiegate. L'attenzione verrà posta sullo stress idrico, sulle carenze nutrizionali e sulle malattie. Si utilizzerà l'analisi multispettrale per ottenere mappe tematiche, tradotte poi in mappe di prescrizione degli interventi mirati da applicare, realizzati tramite macchinari a basso impatto ambientale.
Activities
The project VI.P. provides for the creation of a model that will allow precise diagnosis of the vineyard through remote sensing and multispectral analysis systems to identify the different causes of stress and diseases present in the farming. The project will allow to obtain geo-referenced descriptive maps of the vineyard and geo-referenced prescription maps of the specific interventions to be carried out. Then, through an innovative variable rate electrical machine, the planned interventions will be carried out automatically. The machine will be recharged through a special photovoltaic system equipped with an accumulation system.
Activities
Il progetto VI.P. prevede la creazione di un modello che dovrà permettere la diagnosi puntuale del vigneto attraverso sistemi di telerilevamento e analisi multispettrale per individuare le differenti cause di stress e malattie presenti nella coltura. Si otterranno delle mappe tematiche geo-referenziate descrittive del vigneto e delle mappe di prescrizione geo-referenziate degli interventi puntuali da realizzare. Attraverso un innovativo macchinario elettrico a rateo variabile si andranno quindi a realizzare in maniera automatica gli interventi previsti. Il macchinario verrà ricaricato attraverso un apposito impianto fotovoltaico dotato di sistema di accumulo.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014IT06RDRP009 Italy - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Piemonte
Location
- Main geographical location
- Cuneo
- Other geographical location
- Asti
EUR 812191.94
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
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Contacts
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Arione Mirko
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Project partners
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ANT-NET
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Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company
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Confagricoltura Cuneo - Unione Provinciale Agricoltori
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EGEA NEW ENERGY
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IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI
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MERLO PROJECT
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Merlo Industria Metalmeccanica
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Università degli Studi di Torino – Centro di competenza per l’innovazione in campo Agro – ambientale “AGROINNOVA”
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