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Innovative orchard management to increase soil fertility, biodiversity and economic sustainability. Preliminary results of the DOMINO project

Organic agriculture represents an important share of the market and the consumption of organic products is constantly growing.

To cope with the high qualitative and quantitative production standard, farmers frequently adopt intensive farming systems that decrease the orchard biodiversity and contrast the organic agriculture principles. Starting from 2018, first-year of the DOMINO project, the six partner countries developed and experimented new techniques intended to break the paradigm of monoculture and increase the sustainability of local organic fruit productions. The project is subdivided in work packages, aiming to reduce the plant protection products input, increase the functional biodiversity of the orchard/vineyard and valorize selected industrial waste products as organic fertilizers. During the seminar organized on December 12 2019 at the Laimburg Center, the results of the first-year trials were presented to the fruit growers of the Alto Adige region.