The overall ambition of the NOVATERRA project is to significantly contribute to reducing the use and negative impacts of contentious plant protection products for integrated pest, disease, and weed management in two of the main Mediterranean crops in Europe: grapevines and olive trees.
This deliverable (D4.3) is related with to the NOVATERRA Workpackage (WP) 4, which aims to find new alternatives and solutions to reduce the use of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) on two Mediterranean crops: vineyards and olive groves.
This report presents a comprehensive overview of the primary outcomes derived from innovative soil management strategies tested in olive groves (in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece) and vineyards (in Italy and in Spain), based on the results of the fields tests of three key subtasks: Subtask 4.3.1 (Use of cover crops and floral margins to enhance biological control of pests in vineyards and olive groves), Subtask 4.3.2 (Combine cover crops and optimized fertilization plans to improve plant health in vineyards and olive groves), and Subtask 4.3.3 (Soil management for disease control in vineyards). The efficacy of the innovative strategies takes into consideration fruit pest infestation, arthropod biodiversity (canopy and cover crop), plant health, nutritional balance in leaves, photosynthetic activity, presence of water stress, vigour, etc., and grape or olive yield at the end of the season.
