PROGRAM
Wednesday 8 May: Safe-H2O-Farm Project consortium meeting at The Cyprus Institute, Mouskous
Online meeting link: https://meet.goto.com/735541805
Session 1: Welcome and Project Coordination
9:00 Welcome to The Cyprus Institute and the first SAFE-H2O-Farm Consortium Meeting
Adriana Bruggeman and Michela Farneselli
9:10 WP1: Project Coordination, Michela Farneselli, UNIPG
Task 1.1. Administrative and financial management
Task 1.2. Project management and monitoring
Task 1.3. Quality assurance
Session 2: Scientific presentations, with Safe-H2O-Farm implications, research plans and discussion
Chair: Alon Ben-Gal, ARO
9:30 Nitrogen management in processing tomato in organic and conventional cropping systems,
Michela Farneselli, Francesco Tei UNIPG
9:55 Decision support systems and monitoring techniques for optimizing N fertilization in greenhouse crops, Teresa Peña and Francisco M. Padilla, UAL
10:20 Sustainable weed management strategies in the Mediterranean area: research at UNIPG – Euro Pannacci and Francesco Tei (UNIPG)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 First year of investigation – Influence of different treatments on olive leaf spot infestation density, olive fruit fly infestation level and olive oil quality, Maja Jukić Špika, Gvozden Dumičić, Mirella Žanetić, Gabriela Vuletin Selak, Elda Vitanović, IAC
11:40 Use of non-conventional water resources for sustainable tomato and olive production, Ece Aslan, TR-AU The PRIMA programme is an Art. 185 initiative supported and founded under Horizon 2020, the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.2
12:05 Vegetable production under conditions of abiotic stresses and implications on the environment and fruit quality, Hagai Yasuor, ARO
12:30 Soil water monitoring for deficit irrigation in olive production, Adriana Bruggeman and Niovi Christodoulou, CYI
12:55 Light lunch (offered by CYI)
13:55 Agro-ecosystems modelling and data assimilation for reducing nitrogen leaching, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Xin Yang and Claas Nendel, ZALF
14:20 Coupled agronomic-economic evaluation of irrigation as a function of water salinity and the potential of desalination for irrigation, Alon Ben-Gal, ARO
Session 3: WP overviews and discussions (2-4 slides from WP and/or Task leaders)
Chair: Adriana Bruggeman, CYI
14:45 Welcome word from PRIMA, Marco Orlando, PRIMA Officer, Water Management
14:55 WP2: Improvement of N fertilization management in tomato and olive, Teresa Peña and Francisco M. Padilla, UAL
Task 2.1: Evaluation of the optimal fertilizer N rates, sources, and monitoring techniques for adjusted N rates for reducing N leaching risk
Task 2.2: Feasibility of biostimulants for reducing N doses
15:15 WP3: Reduction of the use of pesticides, Euro Pannacci, UNIPG
Task 3.1: Reduction of the use of herbicides
Task 3.2: Reduction of the use of copper-based products and other pesticides
15:30 WP4: Improvement of irrigation and salinity management, Ece Aslan, TR-AU
Task 4.1: Improve irrigation and nitrogen management in olive orchards irrigated with treated sewage water
Task 4.2: Evaluation of the physiological responses of tomato due to salinity and different nitrogen inputs
15:45 Tea break
16:00 WP5: Agro-ecosystems modeling, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Xin Yang and Claas Nendel Claas, ZALF
Task 5.1: Nitrogen leaching simulations
Task 5.2: Decision-making tools for optimizing irrigation, N fertilization and salinity leaching requirements
16:15 WP6: Socio-economic evaluations, Adriana Bruggeman, CYI
Task 6.1&6.3: Economic and Social analysis of the impacts of farm strategies and measures
Task 6.2: Couple crop response, water and solute balance model with economic considerations for decision-making support regarding irrigation with water of variable quality
16:30 WP7: Dissemination, Alon Ben-Gal, ARO
Task 7.1: Dissemination to local and international stakeholders
Task 7.2: Scientific publications
Task 7.3: Educational workshops and training events
Thursday 9 May: Safe-H2O-Farm olive and treated sewage water irrigation research field trip
9:30 Visit olive production orchard with treated sewage water irrigation, and Cyprus Institute field research and olive oil production, meet the farm manager, Strakka Farm in Deftera
11:45 Coffee and snack with irrigation association farmers in Astromeritis (at Stema bakery)
12:15 Visit olive orchards with treated sewage irrigation and Cyprus Institute field research, in Astromeritis, near sewage treatment plant
13:00 Visit the recently established sewage treatment plant (next to Green Point), Astromeritis
14:15 Visit the Holy Church of Stavros tis Asinou, one of UNESCO World Heritage churches in the Troodos Mountains with Byzantine frescoes