The first newsletter from the IWMPRAISE project is now available, providing updates on the European Union’s first research and innovation project focusing solely on Integrated Weed Management (IWM) as a means of reducing herbicide use.
In the newsletter, IWMPRAISE (IWM PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe) explains how the project is based around five pillars of IWM which seek to prevent the establishment of weeds, reduce the impact of weeds on crops and avoid the return of weed seeds to fields.
These five pillars are:
The role of IWMPRAISE as a game changer was emphasised by project leader Per Kudsk, from the Department of Agroecology at Denmark’s Aarhus University, at a recent EU Agri-Research Conference. The newsletter reports: “In his presentation, he explained the key features of IWMPRAISE, including the fact that the project uses national clusters to accommodate a truly multi-actor approach, overcome language barriers and ensure locally adapted solutions, and that it addresses current socio-economic barriers to the uptake of integrated weed management.”
Another interesting feature of the project, which comprises 37 partners from eight different European countries including universities and research institutes, SMEs and industrial partners, and advisory services and end user organisations, is the publication of “practical and inspirational information sheets regarding various aspects of weed management in different crops and settings”.
Those currently available address an explanation of Integrated Weed Management (IWM), flame weeding in no-till vegetable crops, important weeds in olive orchards in northern and southern Spain, the most important management options for olive orchards in Spain, a prototype of a camera controlled/guided post-emergence inter-row cultivator combined with herbicide band application (along the crop rows) and flex-tine weed harrowing in spring cereals.
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