SAVEM

Project Financing:

Total budgel: 814 861 €

Budget INRAE: 410 396,60 €

Financier: Ecophyto DEPHY EXPE

Duration: 72 month

Abstract: The creation of orchard-market gardens is a promising way to reduce pesticide use by relying on ecosystem services, optimising resources, and creating an appropriate microclimate to increased yields, particularly in the Mediterranean context. Peach growers use a significant number of phytosanitary treatments with chemical TFI ranging from 16.3 (Pyrénées-Orientales) to 25.2 (PACA). Historically, in their young orchards, they combined market gardening between rows before the production period. This practice could be adapted to modern orchards in an agroecological context. Indeed, several market garden species are valued as service plants in arboriculture. Two low-input system trials (chemical TFI reduced by 75%) will be set up. The multi-criteria evaluation of the performance of these systems will be carried out with experimental plots on farms, through the creation of a multi-stakeholder research network so that the results obtained can be shared and promoted to all. During the trials, instrumented monitoring will enable the analysis of resource sharing mechanisms in these systems and the comparison of the performance of varieties with contrasting behaviours linked to phenotypic traits and ecophysiological characteristics.

PSH role:

PSH is participating in three aspects of the project:

- Co-design of experimental trials: participation in the assessment of the future experimental plot at the INRAE St Maurice site (soil and climate aspects, technical and scientific aspects) and in design workshops (physical model of the experimental plot, choice of technical itinerary, design of protocols)

- Setting up and monitoring the trial: participation in monitoring the experimental plot (biotic pressures, phenology, development of different crops, fruit and vegetable quality)

- Monitoring of experiments on the farm: participation in the design of protocols involving all relevant partners at experimental sites and on the farm (monitoring of the agronomic, environmental and economic performance of market garden orchard systems)

Project partners: 

INRAE A2M, INRAE GAFL, INRAE PSH, INRAE EMMAH, INRAE Ecodéveloppement, INRAE UERI Gotheron, INRAE UE Maraichage Alenya, INRAE UMR Agronomie, SICA Centrex, CA66, GRAB, Avignon Université, Agroof

Links:

https://savem.projet-agroforesterie.net/