We are SAFE-H2O-FARM! A research program funded by @PRIMA under @Horizon 2020 investigating and promoting Innovative farm strategies that integrate sustainable N fertilization, water management & pest control to reduce water & soil pollution & salinization in the Mediterranean.

Members of the Safe-H2O-Farm team of the University of Almeria held an info event with local stakeholders demonstrating the use of proximal optical sensors (SPAD chlorophyll meter & Greenseeker handheld NDVI sensor) - monitoring tools to guide N fertilization in greenhouse tomato

The PRIMA project SafeH2OFarm aims to build sustainable nitrogen fertilization, water management, weed and pest control to reduce water and soil pollution and salinization in the Mediterranean. The first consortium meeting was held in Nicosia, Cyprus, hosted by The Cyprus Institute.

On 12 & 13/3, members of the Safe-H2O-Farm team (UNIPG, UAL & Akdenic University), participated in a workshop organized by the iguessMED & Safe-H2O-Farm PRIMA projects in Almeria, Spain. Preliminary results of the project and the UAL experiments on crop monitoring were presented.

On June 13, an information event was organized at the experimental station of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science at the University of Perugia. The field trials related to the current growing season for processing tomatoes were presented.

On June 17, 2024, a field trip to the “PRIMA cover crop trial” took place at the Unipg FieldLab experimental field station. The visit was attended by students, organized by CESAR and aimed at local technicians and farmers interested in the latest agronomic practices.

Determination of olive leaf spot (OLS) and Olive fruit fly (OFF) infestation in Croatia. The two-year (2023/2024) field trial was conducted in an olive grove in Kaštel Novi.