Aim:

Provide crop farmers with disease and pest development forecasts, using a decision support system to determine the exact timing of spraying of plant protection products. 

The project uses the RIMpro decision support system for the forecasting of three widespread harmful organisms: apple scab, fruit tree canker and apple codling moth, and currently tests the pattern of RIMpro apple sawfly forecasts. A network of meteorological stations is maintained as part of the project, as well as free audience access to forecasts of harmful organisms.

The tasks of project:

1. To provide and maintain a forecast of the development of the harmful organisms in apple orchards using a decision support system and to make information on critical risk periods for harmful organisms freely available on a website
2. To monitor the development and spread of the harmful organisms in apple orchards where weather stations have been installed and to determine the effectiveness of the plant protection strategy
3. To develop and test in a field trial different plant protection strategies in line with the predictions of the decision support system, including preparations authorised for organic production
4. To validate new forecast models under Latvian conditions

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