Projects

Adapting technology in professional fruit growing in the „Alte Land“ region

Authority

Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Lower Saxony and Bremen

Contact

Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Adapting technology in professional fruit growing in the „Alte Land“ region

Project description

Against the background of the special area ordinance issued on 11 March 2015, the innovation project aims to make a significant contribution to the further development of the competitiveness and sustainability of the fruit-growing industry in Lower Saxony. The project supports the further development of resource-conserving plant protection management for both conventional and organic fruit growers. The project aims to investigate and improve suitable plant protection techniques and to research alternative risk minimisation measures (tunnel-type sprayers with drift reduction) in order to increase the effectiveness and ecological compatibility of fruit cultivation.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

In the three-year trials, the biological effectiveness of tunnel-type sprayers was compared with axial fan sprayers under conventional and organic production conditions. Tunnel-type devices were superior in controlling apple scab, but were less effective in controlling aphids. No technique was generally superior, differences were pest-dependent. The use of tunnel-type devices complies with the requirements of the Altes Land Pflanzenschutzverordnung (ALVO) for minimising the risk of plant protection products entering bodies of water.

 

Key words

  • Equipment and machinery
  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Pest/disease control in plants

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

Obstbauversuchsring des Alten Landes e. V.
Moorende 53
21635 Jork

Phone: 04162/60610

Email: karsten.klopp@lwk-niedersachsen.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher
  • Industry
  • Climate/environment/nature organisation or agency

Begin of project

2016

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

764,366

Further information

Weitere Informationen finden Sie im Praxisblatt.

Link 1

Practice Sheet

Link 2

project website of EIP Lower Saxony

Link 3

project video

NUTS3 CODE

DE939

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