BIOFRUITNET-Online questionnaire adressed to technical advisors and fruit growers

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Innovarum is one of the partners of the BIOFRUITNET H2020 project.

“The project aims to strengthen the competitiveness of European organic fruit production by collecting and synthesizing existing practical and scientific knowledge on organic fruit-growing to distribute it widely among the EU countries through easy formats like e-learning, podcasts, videos and short articles. Another focus is on strengthening established networks in organic fruit growing and establish links between them to create strong networks of organic fruit producers and stakeholders with a good flow of information. The project is coordinated by the international farmers association Naturland and carried out in collaboration with 15 partner organisations representing 12 countries in total.” – BIOFRUITNET

The 22 of June 2020, the BIOFRUITNET project made a press release announcing the launching of an online questionnaire addressed to technical advisors and fruit growers. Below are the details of the press release:

BIOFRUITNET- Press Release 22 June 2020

Plant protection against pests and diseases is a big issue for organic fruit growers, as the fruit is very sensitive produce. Many organic farmers in Europe have adapted locally their own practices and techniques to successfully deal with the challenge of organic crop protection. However, this valuable practical knowledge often remains at the local level, instead of being shared with fruit growers in other regions facing the same problems. The BIOFRUITNET project aims at connecting practitioners in the organic fruit sector throughout Europe and making these successful methods of crop protection available to all.

The first step of the project is to get an up-to-date picture of what challenges organic fruit growers in Europe are actually facing as well as the strategies they are using to face these challenges. Therefore, BIOFRUITNET partners have launched an online questionnaire addressed to technical advisors and fruit growers. The intention is to find out about current needs and knowledge gaps regarding stone, pome and citrus fruit as well as best-practices and also to inquire in which way farmers would prefer to access technical information about such issues.

The results of the questionnaire will allow us to identify, what kind of knowledge and information is needed where. They will provide the basis for the production of various communication formats such as videos, podcasts and e-learning courses, which shall be both informative and easy to understand. These formats shall be disseminated via networks, advisory services and academic schools throughout Europe.

We encourage fruit farming advisors, practitioners as well as selected researchers in 20 European target countries to fill in this questionnaire and to suggest combinations of practices in their local contexts until the 30th of September 2020.

More info

For more information on the project activities and expected results, visit the project website or contact:

Responsible peson for the questionnaire: Claude-Eric Parveaud (parveaud@grab.fr)
National contact points: https://biofruitnet.eu/partners-and-workplan/#partners

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