Recycled plastic tile as artificial mulch for vines and olive trees.
MOMENT OF INNOVATION..
Stakes.
INNOVATION STATUS.
Weed control on crops on raws: the Symbio tile
Pollution of aquifers and surrounding areas increases the health risk to users and citizens, with the spread of toxic chemicals to humans and biological fauna.
Various studies have now shown the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques, but above all the harmful effect after about 4 years of use of inter-cep tools (pulling up of the vines), or setting up mulch asking to be renewed (cost).
Benefits of the Symbio tile: Sustainable use of recycled polypropylene mulch
- 100% weed eradication
- Attenuation of soil temperatures,
- Maintaining soil moisture
- Activation of soil biological life
- Irrigation efficiency
- Rainfall Piping
- Erosion Control
- Sustainable system
- Decrease in runoff
National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Agriculture and Environment
Irstea is a research organization which works on major issues of a responsible agriculture and territories sustainable planning, water management and related risks, drought, floods, inundations, the biodiversity and complex ecosystems study in their interrelation with human activities.