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The French project LEVEAB: Remove the barriers to growing almonds in organic farming

Jean-Michel Montagnon
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Philippe Lucas
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Jean-Philippe Rouvier
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Jimmy Planche
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Margaux Allix
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Myriam Berud
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François Warlop
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William Chambeyron
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Carole Calcet
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Benoît Chauvin-Buthaud
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Florence Fraisse
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Cédric Portal
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Résumé

Despite strong demand, organic almond production in France is limited by pest pressure. The lack of sustainable solutions to control pests and diseases (Eurytoma, Fusicoccum, etc.) is holding back the development of the organic sector and limiting the scope for agroecological progress in conventional production. In 2021, we started the LEVEAB project, whose objectives are to propose biocontrol methods and new active ingredients, and to evaluate their impacts and limits for the cultivation of almond trees in organic orchards. The project includes 4 research pillars. The first one is to study the possibility of a mass trapping method with kairomones for the almond wasp (Eurytoma amygdali). The second pillar consists of testing the effectiveness of new molecules against almond diseases and pest in producer’s fields. The third pillar consists of evaluating certain cover crops for the management of pests and beneficial insects in almond orchards. The objectives of the last pillar are to identify the environmental factors that favor the development of the almond wasp. In the last year of the project, it is planned to transfer and communicate the innovative strategies resulting from the project to almond growers. The first results show that it would be possible to limit the pressure from almond pest and disease and to produce almond in organic orchards.
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hal-04127090 , version 1 (13-06-2023)

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Henri Duval, Jean-Michel Montagnon, Philippe Lucas, Jean-Philippe Rouvier, Jimmy Planche, et al.. The French project LEVEAB: Remove the barriers to growing almonds in organic farming. VIII International Symposium on Almonds and Pistachios:, May 2023, Davis, CA, United States. ⟨hal-04127090⟩
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