An alternative to field burning of pruning residues in mountain vineyards
Raffaele Spinelli|Carolina Lombardini|Luigi Pari|L. Sadauskienė
The Authors tested a new mini-baler system designed for the recovery of pruning residues in vineyards inaccessible to conventional tractors. Under these conditions, growers manually take field edge and burn them there. Such practice is expensive, generates substantial emissions. Use would substitute burning, with significant advantages on air quality landscape amenity. works well, but productivity low (mean 0.38 t per scheduled machine hour) baling cost still too high 80 € t−1). Productivity can be increased decreased through better preparation before collection. Farm use baled product may dramatically increase value facilitated by availability newly boilers. versatility small purchase makes it an ideal those cases where labour investment capacity limited.
Ecological Engineering