{"id":3197,"date":"2020-11-05T23:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/?page_id=3197"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:05:28","slug":"strategie-e-prodotti-per-difesa-e-concimazione","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/products-services\/strategie-e-prodotti-per-difesa-e-concimazione\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFENSE AND FERTILIZATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fruit farming is facing new challenges due to climate change and the need to reduce the environmental impact of production, caused by the use of pharmaceuticals for agriculture. The only way to move forward is to place your trust in\u00a0<\/span><b>innovation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, planning field operations in an increasingly precise way, thanks to the support of\u00a0<\/span><b>expert agronomy consultants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advice&amp;Consulting recommends an\u00a0<\/span><b>effective line of defence against parasites and fungi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, selecting the best products on the market and ensuring the\u00a0<\/span><b>natural balance of the plants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is maintained.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We base our prevention strategy on in-depth knowledge of the biology of diseases, whether caused by\u00a0<\/span><b>fungi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><b>insects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while safeguarding the useful insects that help agriculture and getting the most out of every single chemical product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Criteria for mineral fertilizing (n \u2013 p \u2013 k)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advice&amp;Consulting recommends fertilizing crops on the\u00a0<\/span><b>principle of replacement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in other words introducing a quantity of mineral fertilizers equal to that taken away by production, bearing in mind that the leaves and wood leftover from pruning should be broken up and left in the field.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This principle can be adopted for all cultivars, right from the first year of planting, considering that the young plant increases in weight and productive volume 15 to 20 times in the first three to four years, to reach the maximum volume of production from the fourth year onwards.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Improvement of the organic substance content<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the first two years, we recommend the use of\u00a0<\/span><b>humic acids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which can be distributed via drip irrigation. After that, it is sufficient to cut and mulch the grass between the rows and leave it in situ.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Micro-elements<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advice&amp;Consulting recommends the use of\u00a0<\/span><b>B-boron<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Zn-zinc<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>Mn-manganese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0for on-leaf treatments, and\u00a0<\/span><b>Fe-iron<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in fertigation.<\/span><b>FERTIRIGATION WITH DRIP IRRIGATION<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fertigation makes it possible to take full advantage of the drip irrigation system. If we consider the soil as a simple support for the plants\u2019 roots, it is necessary to provide the nutritional requirements via the irrigation system using\u00a0soluble fertilizers.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fertigation is therefore preferable to granular soil-based fertilizing because it uses about\u00a025-30% less fertilizer.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advice&amp;Consulting recommends fertigation because:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is more efficient since the roots better absorb the nutrients from the water solution circulating in the soil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is possible to administer the fertilizer in smaller doses throughout the season, according to the needs of the plants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the risk of fertiliser being washed away by rainfall is diminished.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soluble crystal fertilizers permit a higher fertilizing nutrient content compared to liquid fertilizers, whose relatively high-water content (around 60-70%) increases transport costs unnecessarily.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit farming is facing new challenges due to climate change and the need to reduce the environmental impact of production, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103609,"parent":3117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3197","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104826,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions\/104826"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advice-consulting.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}