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Preventive cultivation planning in faba beans and field peas to avoid key-pest incidence and to enhance yield stability (WP1)
Project
Project code: 2815EPS057
Contract period: 01.06.2016
- 30.04.2019
Budget: 32,604 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The project aims to develop a risk avoidance strategy targeting four principal, legume specific insect pests in faba bean and field pea. Based on the analysis of empiric field data the effects of crop site selection, crop spacing and sowing date on pest incidence the project explores the potential for preventive cultivation planning. The project, embedded in an ongoing joint study (CYDNIGPRO; http://orgprints.org/29220/) addressing pea moth in field- and fresh peas, involves the same four partner institutions Uni-Kassel-FÖP, Gäa e.V., ZEPP Bad Kreuznach und LLG and covers in addition to pea moth further grain legume key-pests, namely pea leaf weevil, broad bean– and pea weevil, as well as pea midge. Data sets from three distinct model regions concerning the infestation dynamics in space and in time, corresponding crop phenology as well as climatic data in three consecutive cropping cycles, are augmented by climate chamber and field experiments to assess degree day estimates for the respective crop- and herbivore phenology. Infestation/crop spacing correlations between previous and present fields are calculated employing GIS-tools as a) minmal distance (MD) and b) crop abundance index (CA-index) in graduated circles around actual legume sites. The derived situational risk avoidance strategies aim to support organic as well as integrated farmers in reducing direct control needs and to stabilize grain legume yields.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Protection
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
Funding programme
Excutive institution
State Institute for Agriculture, and Horticulture Saxony-Anhalt (LLG)
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: Pest guild in field beans and peas
- Preventive cultivation planning in faba beans and field peas to avoid key-pest incidence and to enhance yield stability (WP1)
- Preventive cultivation planning in faba beans and field peas to avoid key-pest incidence and to enhance yield stability (WP1)
- Preventive handling of faba bean and pea crops for avoidance of pathogens and securing yield
