Innovative low impact strategies for disease and pest management in fruit‐chestnut groves
Transfer to the "chestnut system” biological control protocols already widely tested and validated in other agricultural crops. Another objective is to transform pruning residues into a potential source of income for the farmer, through its transformation into biochar, to be used as a soil amendment. Through these actions the project will bring absolute innovations in a sector that has difficulties to renew. Fruit‐chestnut cultivation is in fact based in Tuscany on obsolete methods, which are one of the causes of the poor profitability of chestnut cultivation and, as a consequence, of the abandonment of internal rural areas.
Samplings will be carried out in chestnut groves located at different altitudes to identify populations of harmful and useful organisms. The latter will be used as antagonists of harmful species, according to a rational chronogram that will take into account their biology and environmental factors. The effectiveness of treatments will be verified through monitoring at regular time intervals throughout the duration of the project. The project also includes normal and phytosanitary pruning, whose resulting material be used for the production of biochar.
In recent decades, climate change, economic and social constraints have seriously compromised Tuscan chestnut cultivation, still essentially carried out with traditional methods. These factors have lead to the aging and physiological decline of chestnut groves and triggered parasite outbreaks. Already known and recently introduced diseases and pests heavily curtail chestnut production. The introduction of new economically sustainable cultivation techniques can be a solution.
Transfer to the "chestnut system” biological control protocols already widely tested and validated in other agricultural crops.
Transform pruning residues into a potential source of income for the farmer, through its transformation into biochar, to be used as a soil amendment.
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