Fruit Technical Consultant meeting 28th September 2016

Technical Consultants Commitee is a working group for the sustainable production of apples and pears of the Girona fruit area. These are quinzenal sessions organized by the IRTA Mas Badia where technical consultants from different entities public and private attend. Is an exchange of information between researchers and technicians, dealing with problems that arise during the season and consider solutions in the short and long term. This is culminated by initiating a research activity and / or a common action for the entire fruit region. In some of them (above detailed dates) attendants devote time to update the Fruit.Net programme at the beginning of the season, do comments about the incidences of the pests and diseases and do modifications in the control strategies (mid-season) if necessary, and finally summarize the results according to the features of the obtained production.
Also in this occasion, results of comparatives mosquito types for Ceratitis capitata were presented. Five types of mosquitoes are compared: 1.Probodelt (Maxitrap) with insecticide in the lid, 2.Conic model 2015, 3. Decis trap, 4. Conical model 2016 and 5. Probodelt with insecticide on disk. The first results show that the best efficiency was given by the conical model followed by Decis trap.

Details

Activity type

Participation in other stakeholder meeting

Activity work package

Reduction in pesticide residues

Activity number

IRTA-WP3-A2

Activity contact

Marià Vilajeliu
[email protected]

Activity partner

IRTA MAS BADIA

Activity country

Spain

Last edit

17-01-2019