The Friendly Fruit is reaching apple and strawberry producers and disseminating through different channels (workpackage 3) : for apple the project has a bottom up approach based on discussion and exercises with farmers (co-designing).

A co-design workshop was organised at MOM (Climate-KIC partner of Friendly Fruit) orchard in France on February, 21st 2019.  

Objective

• Develop solutions against the ash apple aphid by controlling fertilisation, grass mowing and the growing of plant species enabling the development of alternatives.
• Trials will be carried out in 2019

Participants

• apple growers from Picardie, south Aisne and INRA in France

Contact information

If you would like more information please contact 

Philippe Blouin, MOM <philippe.blouin@momgroup.com>

Annabelle Richard, INRA UERI Gotheron <Annabelle.Richard@inra.fr>