On December 11th, 2019 the 3rd Project Meeting for the H2020 project OPTIMA was held in Turin, Italy hosted by Professor Paolo Balsari from University of Turin. All the consortium members participated in this event for discussing and evaluating the work progress of the project. During the meeting, AGENSO presented the current stage of the OPTIMA IPM Decision Support System (DSS) which is responsible for its development. The project partners were impressed by the ease of use of this DSS and its functionalities while they stated their eagerness for its forthcoming versions!
As conclusion it came out that the project runs smoothly and successfully because of the hard work of its dedicated consortium!
OPTIMA project (Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables), will develop an environmentally friendly IPM framework for vineyards, apple orchards and carrots by providing a holistic integrated approach which includes all critical aspects related to disease management.