
Action Plan for Mountain Agriculture and Food Sciences
Facts & Figures
employees have been recruited at the Laimburg Research Centre thanks to the action plan.
projects have been implemented at the Laimburg Research Centre: 9 of them have been completed, 47 are ongoing.
experimental fields throughout South Tyrol are managed by the research area Mountain Agriculture in 37 projects.
Action Plan for Mountain Agriculture and Food Sciences
Projects
[This section is under construction. Please refer to the German or Italian version of this website to find a selection of projects]
Berries and Stonefruit
For various supplementary crops such as elderberries, hazelnuts, or walnuts, the Berries and Stonefruit working group constructed a pilot and demonstration installation in order to provide useful information on the various cultivation issues such as variety selection, training systems, and care. The chestnut – a tree rich in tradition – and problems associated with its cultivation (infestation by the Chestnet Tortrix, Septoria Leaf Spot, and the fungus Gnomoniopsis) are now being investigated experimentally. Thanks to the new resources, new niche and/or supplementary crops (the hazelnut, mini-kiwis, the blue honeysuckle, the sea buckthorn, the amelanchier, etc.) can now be tested for their suitability for cultivation in the low mountain ranges of South Tyrol. Together with the Fondazione Edmund Mach (TN) and the Fondazione Fojanini (SO), a comparison of new sweet cherry rootstocks for the low mountain ranges was also started.
Events
The Laimburg Research Centre organises a series of events as part of the Action Plan for Mountain Agriculture and Food Sciences to share its knowledge and findings directly with local agricultural practice and industrial production, as well as to train students and teachers from vocational schools and universities. Current events can be found in our agenda.
Contact
Dr. Angelo Zanella
+39 0471 969 691
angelo.zanella@laimburg.it