Innovations in sustainable plant protection

Growers participating in the “Agri-environment payments” program shall follow requirements of Regulation 1782/32003.
According to these requirements, the same active ingredients of plant protection products must be used not more than two times per vegetation season and preharvest interval should be 1.5 times longer than indicated on the label.Plant protection products labelled as "Very toxic" and (or) "Toxic" are forbidden. At the same time, forecasting models should be incorporated in plant protection system.
Rural development programme 2014-2020 „Environmentally friendly fruits and vegetable cultivation system“ started from 2012. The aim of the system is to encourage farmers growing fruit and vegetables to introduce environmentally friendly production technologies and reduce environmental pollution.
The growing of fruits, vegetables and berries under this system is an important tool for improvement of environmental protection while allowing farming.
Environment-friendly technologies help to retain and improve quality of soil, reduce water pollution, secure the stability of the eco-system and biodiversity.
About 30 percent fruit growers are participating in this support system.

Details

Activity type

Organising/holding seminar/lecture-based workshop

Activity work package

Reduction in pesticide residues

Activity number

LRCAF-WP3-A7

Activity contact

Alma Valiuškaitė
Institute of Horticulture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Kauno 30 str., Babtai, Kaunas distr., LT-54333, LITHUANIA. E-mail: [email protected]

Activity partner

Institute of Horticulture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry

Activity country

Lithuania

Last edit

31-10-2017