Idioma principal do documento: Inglês


Resumo em Inglês: What is organic viticulture? Organic viticulture is about producing grapes using a “management system which promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity. It emphasises the use of management practices in preference to the use of off-farm inputs, taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems” (adapted from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements). Organic grape growing involves the development and maintenance of sustainable vineyard systems that rely to the greatest extent possible upon natural processes for nutrient cycling and pest, disease and weed management. Organic standards allow for a limited range of acceptable inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides to be used on the organic vineyard when necessary. Why adopt organic methods? Australian grape growers adopt organic methods because of the advantages they perceive in grape and wine quality, marketing, personal health and safety, and agricultural and environmental sustainability. Some growers take the issue of terroir particularly seriously and consider that reliance upon natural processes allows the full expression of local soil and other environmental characteristics in a wine. Organic Viticulture: An Australian Manual - To assist grape growers who are interested in managing their vineyards organically, and to support further development of the organic viticulture industry, the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation and DPI jointly funded a project to document organic management practices for Australian grape growers. The major output of that project is the publication Organic viticulture: an Australian manual. This manual will be of use to anyone interested in growing grapes organically, and to those who just wish to try selected aspects of the organic approach.
Palavras-chave em Inglês: organic farming, organic viticulture, vineyard establishment and conversion, environment and landscape management, soil management, water management, weed disease and pests management, contamination risks, machinery, waste management

Tipo: Livro/E-Book

Áreas temáticas: Ciências Biológicas, Ciências Agrárias e Desenv. Rural, Ciências e Tecnol. do Ambiente
Ano publicação/produção:  2007

Instituição: Primary Industries Research Victoria

Referência bibliográfica: Madge, D. 2007 - Organic Viticulture: an Australian Manual. Primary Industries Research Victoria, Australia.

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