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Promoting new organic vineyards with piwi cultivation through disruptive and innovative site refinement and building a new value chain

Authority

Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Baden-Wurttemberg

Contact

Kernerplatz 10
70182 Stuttgart

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Promoting new organic vineyards with piwi cultivation through disruptive and innovative site refinement and building a new value chain

Project description

With a new value chain and an innovative site improvement process, organic viticulture is to be made possible across the board for conventional winegrowers' and producers' associations and their winegrowers. The need for plant protection is to be reduced by 75% and the environment relieved. At the same time, small conventional wineries (84% of all wineries in Baden-Wuerttemberg with less than 1 ha of vineyards) will be enabled to take the step to organic viticulture in the first place. In order to support the strengthening of biodiversity, we want to actively tackle precisely those areas where it is most urgently needed. With the new grafting method on piwis, which for the first time does not involve yield losses, we can now offer a cost-effective solution and scale the life of vineyards to their maximum. In this way, we ensure the best possible carbon footprint. Our model combines sustainable agriculture and the preservation of traditional structures in viticulture. Our goal for the project period: The initiative to restructure more than 50 ha of vineyards to organic Piwi vines and the marketing of Piwi wines.

 

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

Establishment and standardisation of the new site improvement method "Rösch" together with the WBI Freiburg. On two hectares of test areas, part of the OPG, the method is to be scientifically investigated and standardised with new tools and processes. The method promises no yield losses and total costs for restructuring of 15,000€ per ha (compared to 50,000€ per ha for new planting). The aim is to publish the method and a DIY manual for winegrowers with clear step-by-step instructions. The OPG integrates numerous winegrowers and cooperatives into the project and initiates the organic Piwi restructuring of 50 ha of vineyards. The farms are to be advised and accompanied in the restructuring of the vineyards with the new method and in the business reorientation.

 

Key words

  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Pest/disease control
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

Piwi Kollektiv GmbH
Bötzingerstr. 13
79356 Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl

Phone: 017624688686

Email: philipp@piwi-kollektiv.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher
  • Industry

Begin of project

2022

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

335,237

Link 1

project website

NUTS3 CODE

DE132

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