INNOBANDAS Operational Group: Innovative health project on pine needle bands in Cantabria, Navarre and the Basque Country
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018 -2020
- Assigned Budget 413.450,00 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Cantabria; Navarra, Comunidad Foral de; País Vasco
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/find-connect/projects/grupo-operativo- …
Description
INNOBANDAS promotes the application of innovative techniques to sustainably address the health problem known as "needle banding," which is progressively and increasingly affecting pine stands.
Objectives
- To test the effectiveness of innovative techniques used in New Zealand, Chile, and those developed by our research centers for controlling needle bands in our forests.
- Analyze the economic and environmental sustainability of the techniques indicated above.
- Develop and implement innovative techniques for efficient surveying, defoliation assessment, and results measurement. Minimize the economic damage caused to pine forest managers by needle band disease.
Results
- Increase in green needle density and wood volume growth after the tests were carried out.
- Evaluation of the amount of product used in the tests that is detected in the surface waters and soil of the area.
- Establishing the accuracy and costs of each prospecting technique, assessing defoliation, and measuring results.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: Baskegur Association
- Coordinator/entity email: info@baskegur.eus
Collaborators
- Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Pasta, Papel y Cartón (ASPAPEL)
- Diputación Foral de Álava
- Departamento de Sostenibilidad y Medio Natural de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
- Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa.
- Dirección General de Medio Natural de la Consejería de Medio Rural, Pesca y Alimentación de Cantabria (DGMN Cantabria)
- Departamento de Desarrollo Rural, Medio Ambiente y Administración Local del Gobierno de Navarra
Beneficiaries
- Asociación Baskegur
- Foresna-Zurgaia
- Asociación Cántabra de Empresarios de la Madera y del Comercio del Mueble (ACEMM)
- Galca Solucions Habitacionais S.L.
- Fundación Hazi Fundazioa
Outsourced
- NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario S.A.
- Basoekin S.L.
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