Last Friday, 7th May 2021, AREFLH, requested in a letter to Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture, for an institutional reaction following the very serious damage suffered by the fruit and vegetable sector after the frost episode last April.
AREFLH is a partner of the SMARTPROTECT project "SMART agriculture for innovative vegetable crop PROTECTion: harnessing advanced methodologies and technologies". The project aim is to bridge the knowledge gap between innovation research and practice in the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methodology in different outdoor and undercover crops.
In this article AREFLH focuses on SMARTPROTECT project, why the sustainable pest control is essential for the planet.
The last meeting of the European Parliament's AGRI Committee took place on 14 April, our EU policy officer Luca Contrino has summarised the main results in this article.
Commissioner Wojciechowski presented the Action Plan for Organic Production, and in the second part of the meeting the Parliament's rapporteurs presented an update on the Trilogues on the CAP reform.
MEPs also provided the rapporteurs with other important points, such as :
Within the framework of the NUTRIMAN* project, we are presenting you this month an innovative product that is presented on Nutriman’s farmer platform and is available on the market : “Biogas Bree” ammonium sulphate from digestate process.
The Biogas Bree uses a chemical air scrubber to limit ammonia emissions of the drying of (solid fraction of) digestate.
Luca Contrino joined our team on March 8 after experiences in the European Commission (DG REGIO and DG DEVCO), the NGO sector as well as the private sector.
The CONSOLE project focuses on “CONtract SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by EU agriculture and forestry". This month we are highlighting a particular case study : Eco-Grazing for ecological grasslands maintenance in the green areas of Brest Metropole, in France.
