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Everything you need to know about nitrates in Puglia (and where to find it!)
You want to know more about the nitrate issue, but internet is teeming with fragmented sources, from which it is almost impossible to understand exactly what the PAN is, how the Puglia Region is acting and what are the techniques to be adopted to monitor the...
Report: Puglia region and databases for territory characterization
Overall environmental and climatic context of the various areas of Puglia and how these cna impact on the levels of contamination risk, are described in the Report: Puglia and the databases for the informational characterization of the territory, by the CNR -IRSA.....
Report: Sampling guide
Within the monitoring and experimentation activities on pilot farms, the scientific team of the CNR-IRSA has developed sampling guidelines, containing main steps to follow to sample a territory within the ZVN. Discover the sampling guide, written by the CNR-IRSA team!...
Report: what’s the PAN Puglia?
The Nitrate Action Plan (PAN) is the main tool made made available by European Community and the Italian Regions for addressing nitrate pollution issue that threatens our agriculture. The PAN defines strategies and actions able to fight pollutions and preventing it,...
Report: methodologies for the identification of nitrate pollution from agriculture activities
A proper identification of the sources of nitrate pollution is fundamental for a correct designation of NZVs and for developing correct agronomic strategies. The fight against nitrate pollution involves molecular analysis, in particular in the DEMETRA DSS project the...
Report: what’s a Nitrate Vulnerability Zone and what do you need to know about it?
Agricultural pollution by nitrates represent a great risk for the groundwater safety; for this reason the European Community has issued a series of rules that regulate the so-called Nitrate Vulnerability Zones. Find out what a Nitrate Vulnerability Zone is and how the...
First on-field activities for DEMETRA DSS
DEMETRA DSS project sampling activities have begun , this is the first step in the fight against nitrates! Sampling activities began on 02/03/2021 in Area 2 which includes 11 total sampling sites representative of the North Bari area. This sampling aims to carry out...
DEMETRA in action: on field activities, protocols and next visit calendar
On field visits for data collection and sampling stage of the DEMETRA DSS project has officially started Sampling activities of DEMETRA DSS project was started in March, after carrying out a preliminary inspection phase in all the study areas during the previous...
DEMETRA DSS officially started!
DEMETRA DSS project officially started with the kick-off meeting held today, 31 July 2020. The operational group, formed by representatives of CNR-IRSA, Confcooperative, Sysman, Sempreverde and Cantine Lizzano and Torricella, met (for the first time live!) to kick...
