2016/01/01 by Vincent Mercier, Mercier, Vincent, Claude Bussi +14
Engineering · #Tree Root and Stability Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.15454/1.4622758107225098e12
Tree crops are large consumers of agricultural inputs, particularly for plant protection. Nowadays, practices leading to partial reductions of agricultural inputs are implemented, but the possibility of further reduction through a logic combination of different techniques is still unexplored. The project aimed to assess for three major species, apple, peach and plum, an innovative orchard system leading to a drastic reduction of agricultural inputs while maintaining economic and agronomic performances of the orchard as compared to conventional and organic orchards. Regular exchanges between partners working on different devices of the project made it possible to disseminate informative results among professionals: the "demonstrative" aspect of the network was essential. The "visualization" in fields of different orchard managements should be a "source of inspiration" for producers towards more environment-respectful practices including valid economic performance of the orchard. All devices implanted in the project Casdar 2011-2013 are found in the calls for experimentation Dephy Ecophyto projects in order to develop the results with trees in full production.