Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz
SAFWA aims to release to the market an innovative solution combining a new competitive biopesticide to cultural trainings aiming to reduce land and water pollution through new agricultural practices. SAFWA specific challenge is to meet the requirement of the EU regulation regarding the registration of safe biopesticides and to provide an environment in which agriculture production contributes to reduce the pollution of the water and the land. SAFWA aims to minimize the risk associated to chemical pesticides. SAFWA will capitalize on knowledge and knowhow developed in IPM-4-Citrus (2016-2023) both at technological and market assessment levels to drive new cultural practices to farmers in three experimental farms through the Mediterranean (Tunisia, Spain and Turkey). Biopesticides, based on two sporulating (BLB1, LIP) and one non sporulating (S22) Bacillus thuringiensis strains, will be used in the field assays to treat olive, citrus and pomegranate trees as well as tomato to protect these different cultures against five pest species. Participation of technical centres will contribute to the multi-actor approach of SAFWA project by focusing on the dissemination of good practices and relative information for farming activities without polluting land and water.The relevance of SAFWA relies on its double focus on farming good practices and innovative solution to reduce land and water contamination by chemical pesticides. The project originality mainly lies in a new approach based on an educating program for encouraging farmers to adopt new farming practices. Besides, SAFWA will exploit the promising results of the ongoing project IPM-4-Citrus to complete the commercial exploitation of a new Biopesticide compared with the commercial ones in terms of efficiency, yield, cost, and stability.
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
