Intensive: Caruso's responses to readers' observations

Following the interview on the wall system built in Sicily
Technique and Research
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The interview with prof. Tiziano Caruso on the interesting experience for an olive cultivation through an intensive system that respects biodiversity, sustainable and mechanized has aroused great interest among readers. Some of whom have made observations to which the Professor of Olive Growing at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Palermo he gladly replied.
Here are some of them.

First observation: an intensive system requires too many treatments.
“The total number of treatments performed in one year between wall implants and volume implants did not show great differences. On average, 3-4 anticryptogamic treatments are carried out each year, based on cupric products and 2-3 antiparasitic treatments (to control flies and moths). It should be emphasized that in the selection of the Calatina cultivar the criterion of "scarce susceptibility to cryptogamic" diseases was also taken into account.
Second observation: after the 10th year a traditional system is more profitable than an intensive system. And after 15 years it must be eradicated.
“I can have installations in the Calatina wall visited which still produce abundantly and which have completed their 25th year of age”.
Third observation: in any case it is always an intensive (1000 plants x ha) not dry, I would like the State to finance the recovery of the millions of Italian olive trees in a state of neglect.

“In the context of Sicily, building new dry plants means devoting oneself to alternating production and low productivity, agronomic limitations that are difficult to sustain today from an economic point of view. The article dealt with cultivation models for the new olive growing, with low manpower requirements, which can also be mechanized in harvesting and with high and constant productivity. The protection and enhancement of traditional olive growing is a completely different topic, which must be addressed separately".

To read the interview with prof. Tiziano Caruso click , promising.

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