{"id":19543,"date":"2025-05-26T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=14226"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:02:48","slug":"innovplantprotect-attends-olive-growing-fair-in-campo-maior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/innovplantprotect-marca-presenca-em-feira-dedicada-a-olivicultura-em-campo-maior\/","title":{"rendered":"InnovPlantProtect was present at the Olive Growing Fair in Campo Maior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>InnovPlantProtect (InPP) took part in the National Olive Growing Fair (FNO 25) in Campo Maior, from May 23 to 25, presenting its latest biological and digital innovations for crop protection, including projects focused on biopesticides for olive diseases and early detection of fungi that cause gafa, and monitoring insect vectors of the bacterium <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em>, which attacks olive groves. The Elvas CoLAB was present with its own stand to demonstrate its strengths and the impact of its research on agricultural sustainability, inviting producers, technicians and researchers to learn about its innovative bio-based and digital solutions and to actively participate in the discussion of the sector's challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collaborative laboratory (CoLAB) welcomed visitors at the <strong>stand no. 14<\/strong>, located at <strong>thematic area <\/strong>at the Campo Maior Municipal Garden, to showcase their activity, the ongoing projects that are developing solutions to the main olive diseases, the patents already submitted, the apps for agricultural management and the bio-based and digital products and services they have to offer the agricultural sector and the market. Throughout the three days of the fair, some of InPP's researchers were at the stand to demonstrate to visitors the various features of the Elvas CoLAB, which has been developing innovation that it hopes will contribute to the sustainability of agricultural systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">InPP announced <strong>ValorCannBio project<\/strong>, which is <strong>processing biomass that is not used in the medical cannabis industry to develop effective and sustainable biopesticides against gafa and tuberculosis<\/strong>, The project will be carried out in the municipality of Elvas, which is responsible for decimating entire harvests, leading to severe economic losses and compromising food quality. The impact of this project will be felt in the municipality of Elvas, where the project is being developed, but it is expected that it will extend to the entire olive-growing region from Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes to the Algarve, where production losses are increasing due to these diseases. O <strong>AlViGen project<\/strong> was also one of the protagonists and is using cutting-edge technology to <strong>detecting and identifying the strains of fungi that cause gafa, long before the symptoms become visible<\/strong>. The project team has used traps to collect spores that circulate in the air to monitor the presence of fungi, which can give farmers an important advantage in preventing infections and protecting their crops, reducing production losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O <strong>SNM_XylellaVt project<\/strong>, The SNM_XylellaVt project, led by DRAPCENTRO and in which InPP actively participates, was also highlighted at FNO. SNM_XylellaVt is <strong>monitor the insect vectors of the bacteria <em>Xyllela fastidiosa<\/em><\/strong>, in particular the foam leafhopper, the insect responsible for transmitting the bacterium, which <strong>attacks various agricultural and forestry crops<\/strong>, and in particular olive groves. The project team is developing new tools, such as risk prediction models which, in the presence of the bacterium, whether in plants or insect vectors, will allow the National Agricultural Warning Service (SNAA) to <strong>alert, in real time, about the economic attack levels (EAL) for these insects<\/strong>, thus allowing <strong>prevent infection of the main crops<\/strong>. As part of this project, the team has also developed an online platform where citizens can report the sighting of foams, which are signs of the presence of the insect vectors of <em>X. fastidiosa<\/em>, This will help to map its temporal and spatial distribution and to plan measures to combat this bacterium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FNO, organized jointly by the Campo Maior City Council and the Centre for the Study and Promotion of Olive Oil in the Alentejo (CEPAAL), is an event that aims to enhance national olive growing, and in particular Portuguese olive oil, boosting the local economy and bringing together professionals from the sector - producers, technicians, or researchers - from all over the country to discuss challenges and trends in the Portuguese olive and olive oil sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"14302\" src=\"https:\/\/easb4aajaue.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.28.21_48f486c8-1024x768.jpg?strip=all&resize=800%2C600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"14300\" src=\"https:\/\/easb4aajaue.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-24-at-12.17.12_ccebe77b-1024x1024.jpg?strip=all&resize=800%2C800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"14304\" src=\"https:\/\/easb4aajaue.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-25-at-12.40.14_b1ba93ab-1024x1024.jpg?strip=all&resize=800%2C800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14304\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credits: InnovPlantProtect<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O InnovPlantProtect (InPP) participou na Feira Nacional de Olivicultura (FNO 25) em Campo Maior, de 23 a 25 de maio, apresentando as suas mais recentes inova\u00e7\u00f5es biol\u00f3gicas e digitais para a prote\u00e7\u00e3o de culturas, incluindo projetos focados em biopesticidas para doen\u00e7as do olival e dete\u00e7\u00e3o precoce de fungos causadores da gafa, e monitoriza\u00e7\u00e3o de insetos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-noticia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19543\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}