AQUA project THE LIFE+ Achieving good water QUality status in intensive Animal production areas. CRPA spa - Reggio Emilia Aldo Dal Prà

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1 Achieving good water quality status in intensive animal production areas THE LIFE+ AQUA project CRPA spa - Reggio Emilia Aldo Dal Prà INTER LIFE PT Annual Meeting on LIFE Exchange Experiences & Networking. 3rd and 4th of November, Portugal Achieving good water QUality status in intensive Animal production areas

2 LIFE+ AQUA: facts & figures LIFE+ Environment PROJECT October 2010 March 2014 (42 months) BUDGET: Beneficiary: CRPA S.p.A

3 THE LIFE+ AQUA project AQUA intends to demonstrate how it is possible to reduce water pollution from nutrients at river basin level scale by optimising the use of nitrogen and phosphorus in livestock farms.

4 LIFE+ AQUA: Objectives To reduce nitrogen in manure by increasing the N efficiency in livestock intake. To improve the fertilisation efficiency by maximising the efficiency of nutrients use (N-P) (slurry application techniches crop management) To reduce the pressure and impact in agricultural catchments with intensive livestock rearing by manure fraction separation and transfer of the solid fraction outside NVZ. To reduce N and P losses through the application of good agro-environmental practices.

5 Who is the project address to? Farmers from the Northen regions of Italy Stakeholders, Decision makers Public authorities

6 Why Northen Italy? In this part of Italy more than 70% of the livestock is reared: 68% of dairy cattle, 61% of other cattle, 85% of pigs, 80% of poultry.

7 THE TEAM C.R.P.A S.p.A CRA ERSA ERSAF Fondazione CRPA IPLA Veneto Agricoltura

8 FUNDINGS European Commission Piedmont Region Lombardy Region Veneto Region Emilia-Romagna Region HerAmbiente srl Enìa spa (IREN) AGCO Italia

9 ACTIONS

10 The demonstrative Farms Biagi Romeo - MN Sgambaro M. - PD Bolzon E. e figli - UD Cagnin G. e L. - PD Sevega B. e D. - CN Pinotti L. e A. - CR Diana - TV Mana Stefano - CN Mori Carlo - RE Zambelli F.lli - RE

11 The demonstrative Farms

12 The project organization chart CRPA A.2: Cropping management A.6: Economic & environmental evaluation Fondazione CRPA CRA ERSAF Veneto Agricoltura ERSA IPLA A.9: Project Management A.10: Monitoring and evaluation A.11: Audit A.12: After Life Communication Plan A. 8: Dissemination & dimonstration A. 1: Reduction of N excreted A. 4: Transfer of solid fractions A.3: Environmental measures A. 7: Networking and transferability A. 5: Traceability and Certification

13 Action 1 Reduction of N excreted Reduction of N excreted through the application of low N diets in pigs and high N efficiency diets for dairy and beef cattle 10 demonstrative farms: 4 dairy cattle farms 3 pig farms 2 (+1) beef cattle farms

14 Action 2 Cropping management Adoption of management and agronomical techniques to reduce N leaching to water and to the atmosphere. Application of the best available techniques to distribute slurries: fertirrigation, use of trailing shoes or band spreading on meadows, microirrigation Crop rotations characterised by high N uptake, long cropping seasons, ecc.

15 Action 3 Environmental measures To demonstrate the efficacy of buffer strips and wetlands to reduce nutrient losses to water. The effects of water deriving from soils fertilised with 170 kg N/ha/year and 250 kgn/ha/year (as requested by the Italian Derogation) will be compared in the demonstration sites

16 Action 4 Transfer of solid fractions Manure management through a consortium which separates the solid fraction. Manure solid fraction transfer to farms with lack of organic matter in soils

17 Action 5 Traceability and Certification To apply good traceability practices to the nutrient s management producing evidence of: the use of low protein diets (A1) the transfer of manure solid fractions to zones with high need of organic matter (A4).

18 Action 6 Economic & environmental evaluation Economic and environmental evaluation of action from 1 to 3 Economic assessment by mean of balance sheet of demonstrative farms + nearby farms LCA methodology will be applied to evaluate the environmental impact in the nine demonstrative farms before and after applying the new managements techniques (A1-A2).

19 Action 7 Networking and transferability Country Institute/Centre Contact The Netherlands Plant Research International Frans Aarts UK Rothamsted Research Roland Bol Italy Ministero dell'ambiente e della tutela del territorio e del mare Liliana Cortellini Germany KTLB Helmut Dohler Spain IRTA Francesc Domingo Greece Dimitris Perrotis College, American Farm School Athanasios Gertsis France Institut de l Elevage Andrè Legall Italy Po river basin Authority Fernanda Moroni Italy Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali Daniela Quarato EC European Commission DG Environment Luisa Samarelli UK ADAS John Williams

20 Azione 8 Dissemination & demonstration Information actions Direct actions: 12 demonstrative actions, 6 courses, 10 information days in schools, Seminars, Conferences Indirect actions: website, leaflet, technical articles, electronic newsletter, film, Layman report

21 Achieving good water quality status in intensive animal production areas INTER LIFE PT Annual Meeting on LIFE Exchange Experiences & Networking. 3rd and 4th of November, Portugal Aldo Dal Prà, CRPA spa - Reggio Emilia aqua.crpa.it aqua@crpa.it