1. FArming Tools for external nutrient Inputs and water MAnagement
3rd Plenary Meeting
27-30/09/2016
Rome, Italy
FArming Tools for external nutrient Inputs and water MAnagement

2. ITALIAN PILOT AREA: Piana di Tarquinia
Pasquale Nino, Silvia Vanino, Stefano Fabiani - CREA-PB
Rosario Napoli, Roberta Farina, Stefano Canali, Fabio Tittarelli, Bruno Pennelli, Melania Migliore, Claudia Di Bene, Chiara Piccini, Alessandro Marchetti - CREA- RPS
Carlo De Michele, Guido D’Urso, Enrico Anzano - ARIESPACE

3. AGENDA Analysis Users point of view Policy instruments Field visit
Overview
Location
Partner & Users
Experimental trails – field/lab measurements
Research development
Integration of satellite-based parameters and Crop Growth models (CGM) to provide maps of nutrient requirements and of yield
Integration of satellite-based parameters, weather forecast and ground measurements in soil water balance to provide crop water requirements prediction.
Modelling the optimal scenario for Sustainable soil management practices
Implementation
Integrated FATIMA Platform (services & tools)
Irrigation advisory Service (IAS)
Nitrogen advisory Service (NAS)
Crop System Modelling (CSM)
Farm Performance Calculator (Energy & Economic Indicators) – FPC
Analysis
Users point of view
Policy instruments
Field visit

4. Italian pilot area: Location
The Italian Pilot Area is located inside the «Maremma Etrusca» Water User Association, Center Italy (Lazio Region), where the main activitis are agriculture and tourism, (Presence of Important Etruscan-Roman
archaeological sites)
Why this area?
Necropoli dei Monterozzi
The structural characteristics of agriculture fits the requirements of the project and its central goal [establish innovative and new farm tools and service capacities that help the intensive farm sector optimize its external input management (nutrients and water) and productivity]:
intensive production of winter cereals and irrigated horticultural crops
Nitrate Vulnerable Zones identified by the Lazio region.
Dancers and musicians, tomb of the leopard. UNESCO World Heritage Site

5. Italian pilot area: Partners and Users
Council for agricultural research and economics [CREA]
Research Centre for Soil-Plant System [CREA-RPS]
Research Centre for Policy and Bioeconomy [CREA-PB]
Ariespace
Project Partners
Core Users – relevant local actors. They help on defining local challenges, interest and expectations. Involved in the implementation, evaluation, dissemination and exploitation of FATIMA project in the pilot area. (multi‐actor approach)
Description
Name
Role
Local farmers
Fava Vincenzo
WUA president and farmer
Conventional farm
Fava Giulio
Alberto Valentini
Organic farm
WUA (Consorzio Maremma Etrusca)
Pisarri Sergio
WUA Director
Local agribusiness
Alessandra Siniscalchi
Consorzio “Il pellicano”
Consultant
Di Carlo Luca
Agronomist and WUA consultant
Regional Agency for Agriculture development and innovation (Tarquinia experimental center)
Roberto Mariotti
Horticultural and environmentally plant production manager

6. Regional Meeting
Core users disseminate the project

7. Experimental trails –field/lab measurements
Tomato
- BNF (cover crop + compost)
- SNF (synthetic standard)
Tomato
Wheat N R O S F B
Ground Sensor
Wheat
Chlorophyll content at main phenological stages
- SNF (synthetic standard)
- SRN (slow release)
- ORN (organic)
Soil properties
Soil moisture and T
Radiometric
(simulating S 2A spectral sampling)
LAI
Water

8. Italian pilot area: Research development
Integration of satellite-based parameters and Crop Growth models (CGM) to provide maps of nutrient requirements and of yield
NAS
Short term, input optimizing tools for intensive farm sector
Integration of satellite-based parameters and weather forecast to provide crop water requirements prediction.
Nutrient C and N modeling defining the sustainable management in the mid-long term, proposing alternative cropping strategies
Sustainable crop production system

9. IAS NAS FPC CSM Italian pilot area: Integrated FATIMA Platform 9
Performance Indicator (Water-food-energy and economic) of farm management
Modelling the optimal scenario for Sustainable soil management practices
Advise for Nitrogen application during campaign
Advise for irrigation scheduling. Accumulated ETp with lead time up to 5 days
IAS
NAS
FPC
CSM 9

10. Users point of view (core users and enlarged farmer consultation)
Italian pilot area: Implementation (Policy)
Users point of view (core users and enlarged farmer consultation)
Policy instruments
FATIMA survey and choice experiment : “Socio-economic situation of farmers and its interest in applying techniques to reduce nutrient input and water use”
Analisys of current agro-environmental policies at different levels and scales, from European to national and regional – such as Rural Development Plan)
Identify the main institutional, social, financial, economic and practical barriers that hinder the transitions towards sustainable crop production systems
Formulate policy recommendations and new/improved policy instruments to promote transitions to sustainable agricultural models

11. Field visit to Piana di Tarquinia
Tuscania
Tarquinia
Tarquinia
8:00 Rome: Bus departure in front of CREA-RPS
9:30 – 11: Tarquinia: Meeting with Farmer and Director of Water User Association in Fava Farm
Conventional/intensive Farmer – processing tomato
11:30-12:00 Transfer from Tarquinia to Tuscania
12:00 – 11:30 Tuscania: Meeting with Organic Farmer & meeting closure in the field
13: Lunch
14:15- 14:45 Transfer from Tuscania to Tarquinia
15:00-16:30 In parallel: - visit to Etruscan settlement in Tarquinia
-additional working meetings (pilots &/or WPs);
-debriefing REA-coordinator (technical & administrative issues, amendment)
16:45 Departure to airport/Rome 11

12. Pilot Farm – Intensive agriculture
Cultivated area=20 ha Processing Tomatoes=17.5ha
Durum wheat=2.5 ha
Tomatoes irrigated with Micro-irrigation from May to August
Total water used= around 3,000 mc/ha
Water irrigation from Water User Association (WUA)
Irrigation costs= 800 €/ha WUA +250 €/ha irrigation equipment
Market = Food proccesing industry
Tomato
Durum wheat
Crop area (ha)
17.5
2.5
Yield (kg/ha)
95,000
6,000
Selling price (€/kg)
0,084
0,17
Total Gross Saleable Production (GSP)
139,650
2,550 12

13. Organic Farm Irrigated area= 5 ha (Tomatoes and Potatoes)
Cultivated area=70 ha
Organic Farm
Irrigated area= 5 ha (Tomatoes and Potatoes)
Irrigation with private wells from end of May to end of July
Market = Direct selling in agri-tourism and open-air market
Tomato
Wheat
Potatoes
Wine
Crop area (ha) 2 23 3
4.5
Yield (kg/ha)
30,000
3,000
17,000
450
Selling price (€/kg)
0.18
0.50
0.30
0.4
Total Gross Saleable Production (GSP)
10,800
34,500
15,300
810 13

14. Intensive VS Sustainable Farm
First consideration…..
Intensive
Organic
Tomato
Wheat
Crop area (ha)
17.5
2.5 2 23
Yield (kg/ha)
95,000
6,000
30,000
3,000
Selling price (€/kg)
0.084
0.17
0.18
0.50
Total Gross Saleable Production (GSP)
139,650
2,550
10,800
34,500
GSP/crop area (€/ha)
7,980
1,020
5,400
1,500
Management costs (energy, water, nutrients…) not considered yet!
Less cost of Direct energy
+ cost of Indirect energy (Nutrients)
negative market price
Good Total GSP
+ cost of Direct energy (water from well)
Less use of nutrients
good market price
Less Total GSP 14

15. Thank you!!!! 15