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Optimising phytosanitary protection in organic viticulture

Original titleOptimisation de la protection phytosanitaire en viticulture biologique
Abstract

For societal and environmental reasons, more and more winegrowers want to abandon the use of synthetic plant protection products and are turning to products authorised for organic viticulture to protect their vines. The aim of this project is to test, centralise and disseminate practices, developments and trials carried out by winegrowers, cantonal advisers and researchers, as well as to optimise plant protection without synthetic products and to reduce or replace the use of controversial biological products such as copper. 

The project focuses on 3 main areas:

  • Collecting, evaluating and disseminating innovative practices and strategies from winegrowers, cantonal viticultural advisors, research and phytosanitary companies
  • Setting up a network of practical on-farm trials with winegrowers and centralising all the other results of trials carried out in the cantons and by phytosanitary companies, with the aim of optimising control without synthetic inputs in the different contexts of phytosanitary pressure in Swiss vineyards
  • Transferring knowledge on the most interesting strategies by publishing new, precise recommendations in collaboration with the cantonal services concerned, schools and Agridea

The project will contribute to a reduction in the use of synthetic plant protection products and copper through the objective evaluation and wide dissemination of effective biological control strategies.

Financing/ Donor
  • Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG)
(Research) Program
  • Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) – Research, training and innovation
Project partners
  • Agridea
  • Agroscope Changins
  • Bio Suisse
  • Canton of Geneva
  • Canton of Grisons
  • Canton of Neuchâtel
  • Canton of Ticino
  • Canton of Vaud
  • Canton of Valais
  • Bio Suisse member association Bio Vaud
  • Bio Suisse member association Bio Valais
  • Agrivulg
  • Agroline
  • Andermatt
FiBL project leader/ contact
FiBL project staff
FiBL project number 70052
Date modified 21.01.2025
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