Go_MaisSolo aims to provide the horticultural and industrial sector with risk management and decision-making tools, integrating viable and economically acceptable technologies that contribute to maintaining biodiversity and conserving soil and water quality. These technologies eliminate the need for highly toxic treatments, allowing the establishment of species of microorganisms that protect plants from attack by pathogens.
Promoters:
- COTHN Interface Centre – National Horticultural Technological Operating Centre;
- ESAS – Escola Superior Agrícola de Santarém;
- INIAV – National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research;
- FNOP – National Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organisations;
- AGROMAIS;
- TORRIBA;
- Soc. Agri. Herd. das Malhadinhas;
- Soc. Agr. S. João de Brito.
Challenges Addressed:
The developments carried out under this project have made it possible, among other things:
- Test and improve a set of solutions, adapting and integrating them into the technical itineraries of horticultural-industrial systems and demonstrating the advantages of their use in a generalised way;
- Contribute to the sustainability of these highly productive agricultural systems with a major impact on the country’s economy.
Practical Benefits for Society:
Following the completion of MaisSolo a number of benefits have been achieved, such as:
- Reducing the use of certain production factors, particularly those relating to soil disinfection, by replacing them with alternative techniques that are easy to implement and technically feasible;
- Giving beneficiaries greater decision-making capacity by providing alternative techniques to pesticides, contributing to efficient economic management compatible with maintaining biodiversity and conserving soil and water.
