Docente

Dott. Gemini Delle Vedove gemini.dellevedove@uniud.it

Crediti

3 CFU

Workload

Total workload:  75 hours

Attending classes : Regular lectures (20h) and exercises (5h)=30 h

4h x 7 weeks+ 2h

Field visits : 5 h

personal work: 40 h

Targeted learning outcomes

The students will acquire the capacity to evaluate different techniques aimed at enhancing soil and water conservation in a high quality production system.

Contents

Basics of Soil physics: pseudotransfer functions to estimate,   density and  soil hydrological parameters.
Control of erosion runoff and drainage in plain and sloping fields.

Land improvement: Land levelling, terracing, drainage .

Soil management. Cover-cropping and weed control.

Soil water status monitoring and modelling water requirements for Vineyard.

Water sources and storage: groundwater, runoff water, dams

Irrigation methods, irrigation equipments, and quality of irrigation water

Teaching format:

Regular lectures, exercises with models, visiting vineyards

Literature

• Allen RG, Pereira LS, Raes D, Smith M (1998) Crop Evapotrans-piration. Guidelines for computing crop water requirements. FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper,  56.
• Ramos MC . Soil water balance in rainfed vineyards of the Penedès region (Northeastern Spain) affected by rainfall characteristics and land levelling: influence on grape yield. Plant Soil (2010) 333:375–389. DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0353-y
• Guida per il viticulture. 2004. Veneto Agricoltura. Download: http://www.venetoagricoltura.org/basic.php?ID=1066
• Cellette F. , Gary C. 2013 Dynamics  of  water  and  nitrogen  stress  along  the  grapevine  cycle  as  affected  by cover  cropping. Eur J Agr. 45,142-152. . http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2012.10.001
• Peterlunger E. et al. Deficit idrico e qualità dell’uva.. 2012 L’Informatore Agrario 15.46-52.
• Aude Ripoche A. et al. 2010. Design of intercrop management plans to fulfil production and environmentalobjectives in vineyards. Eur J Agr. 32,30-39. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2009.05.00
• C. Acevedo-Opazo et al. 2010. Effects of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) water status on water consumption, vegetative growth and grape quality: An irrigation scheduling application to achieve regulated deficit irrigation. Agr. Water Mngt. 97, 955-964. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2010.01.025.
• VSIM - Vineyard Soil Irrigation Model – release 5/01/03 - User Guide.  Lars Pierce (CSUMB), Ramakrishna Nemani (U of Montana), and Lee Johnson (CSUMB, NASA-Ames)
• Scalabrelli G. et al. 2011.Qualità dell’uva e del vino ed interventi irrigui. L’inf. Agr. 20, 38-44.

Exam achievementes

Oral examination

Recommended prerequisites: Basics on soil science