Unit TREE CULTIVATION

Course
Agricultural and environmental sciences
Study-unit Code
80205012
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Franco Famiani
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

ARBORICULTURE FOR QUALITY WOOD AND ENERGY PURPOSES

Code 80205106
CFU 6
Teacher Luca Regni
Teachers
  • Luca Regni
Hours
  • 54 ore - Luca Regni
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline della produzione vegetale
Academic discipline AGR/03
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents In summary the program includes: planning, planting and management of orchards for the production of wood or biomass for energy production and/or materials for industry. Main species of trees dedicated to the production of wood and biomass and production chains. Forest certification. Environmental issues associated with arboriculture for wood and biomass.
Reference texts Proietti P. - Regni L. - Lecture notes and slides PDF available in UNISTUDIUM.
 For more knowledge on the basis of individual interests of the students:
AA.VV. - Arboricoltura da legno. Edagricole, Bologna.
Zocca A - La propagazione di alberi e arbusti. Edagricole, Bologna.
Progettare, realizzare e condurre impianti di Arboricoltura da Legno, Manuale Arsia.
Buresti Enrico e  Mori Paolo - Progettazione e realizzazione di impianti di arboricoltura da Legno - Manuale Arsia.
Enrico Buresti - Conduzione e valutazione degli impianti di arboricoltura da legno - Manuale Arsia.
M. Pignochino - Guida alla gestione degli impianti - Manuale Regione piemonte.
AA.VV. - PIOPPICOLTURA: produzioni di qualità nel rispetto dell’ambiente - Istituto di Sperimentazione per la Pioppicoltura. 
AA.VV. -Short Rotation Forestry for Industrial and Rural Development - Westville Pub.
Educational objectives The general objective of course is to provide students with the basics to design, implement and manage the orchards for wood and biomass production (with particular reference to walnut, cherry, poplar and paulownia) in order to optimize the quantitative/qualitative results, reduce costs and enhance ecosystem services of such plantations (germplasm conservation, carbon sequestration, buffer zones, improving landscape, etc.).
The specific objectives are: - To acquire and process knowledge on morphology, biology, phenology and environmental and human factors interacting to pursue production of high quantityquality and economically and environmentally sustainability.
- Explain the principles and define techniques for controlling development of wood and biomass species with particular attention to planning, planting, soil management, fertilization, irrigation, pruning, disease and pest control, thinning and  final use.
- Provide knowledge on laws, techniques of propagation and training of trees and shrubs  for wood and biomass production in nurseries, with adequate guarantees of genetic quality, health and agronomy. Forest certification.
Prerequisites In order to achieve the objectives of the Course of Tree cultivation it is necessary that the student has passed the exam of General Arboriculture and nursery technique.
In addition, at the beginning of classes or at the beginning of the study, the student should have acquired the basic knowledge of the principles of agronomy, ecology and agricultural economy. This knowledge, in fact, constitute a useful requisite to be able to successfully attend the course and prepare adequately the exam.
Teaching methods The course is organized as follows:
Lectures on the topics listed in the program under "lectures"
Practical training / workshop on the topics listed in the program under "classroom exercises/laboratory"
Field exercises on the topics listed in the program in the "field activities"
Seminars conducted by students of the course: if any (to be agreed with the students and to be included in Practical activities)
Activities in foreign language: if any (to be agreed with the students and to be included in lectures)
Tutorial support activities in addition to teaching hours in number of hours suitable to meet the needs of students
Educational visits and seminars with experts on the topics listed in the program under "educational visits / seminars with experts"
Other information The lesson frequency is strongly recommended.
Reception timetable: Morning and afternoon from Monday to Thursday and Friday morning.
Dott. Luca Regni - tel. 0755856252 - mobile 3480392813 - e-mail luca.regni@unipg.it - facebook Luca Regni (Specific interactive Facebook/whatsapp group - ask to the teacher)
Learning verification modality For the assessment of learning of knowledge relating to the course there is an oral or a written exam.
The exam will determine the level of knowledge acquired, the analytical skills in solve problems related to the planning,  planting and management of orchards for wood and biomass production. The tests will also assess the ability of the student exhibition.
The oral test will consist of a discussion of about one hour to ascertain the level of knowledge about the contents of the program and the processing capacity / implementation of the knowledge acquired by the student. The oral exam will also evaluate the communication skills of the student in relation to the property of language of the discipline and the organization of a personal exhibition on the contents of the program.
The written exam will consist of at least 2 open-ended questions and in the description and critique of images related to the topics of the program. The test will last up to 2 hours. The written test, like the oral one, will ensure the level of knowledge about the contents of the program and the processing capacity / implementation of the knowledge gained by the student. This test will also serve to evaluate the ability of communication in writing of the student in relation to language of the discipline and the organization of a personal exhibition on the contents of the program.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Extended program General objective of course is to provide students with the basics to design, implement and manage the orchards for wood and biomass production in order to optimize the quantitative and qualitative results, reduce costs and enhance ecosystem services of such plantations (germplasm conservation, carbon sequestration, buffer zones, improving landscape, etc.).
The specific objectives are: - To acquire and process knowledge on morphology, biology, phenology and environmental and human factors interacting to pursue production of high quantity and quality and economically and environmentally sustainability.
- Explain the principles and define techniques for controlling development of wood and biomass species with particular attention to planning, planting, soil management, fertilization, irrigation, pruning, thinning and  final use.
- Provide knowledge on laws, techniques of propagation and training of trees and shrubs  for wood and biomass production in nurseries, with adequate guarantees of genetic quality, health and agronomy. Forest certification.
In detail the program of the course is the following:
Arboriculture for high quality wood production
Importance, functions, uses and production of the arboriculture for wood production. Phenological, vegetative and productive behaviors of trees in relation to the environment of cultivation. Carbon sequestration due to arboriculture for wood production. Buffer zones. Criteria for selection of wood species depending on their use and climatic conditions in order to achieve also a high environmental and recreational features. Analysis, planning, realization and management of orchard for wood production. Morphological, phenological biological and functional characteristics, propagation, planting (soil preparation, planting distances, pure and mixed planting systems, intercropping, individual or collective protections) and cultural practices (soil management, fertilization, irrigation, pest and disease control, training systems and pruning, tree thinning) for the rational management and utilization of main tree species for wood production with particular attention to walnut, cherry and paulownia.
Forest certification
Arboriculture for high quantity wood production (poplarculture)
Poplar productions and importance. Choice of species and clones, planting, plant compensation, land management, intercropping, irrigation, fertilization, qualitative characteristics of trunks and pruning, pest and disease control, harvest (traditional, advanced and very advanced: cut down, preparation, extraction and loading of the material), mining the root systems and land rehabilitation, turn cultivation, environmental impact, estimates of production and sales.
Poplar cultivation for biomass
The arboriculture role for the energy needs and environmental benefits.
Poplar in short rotation forestry (srf, short cycle) and in medium rotation forestry (mrf, medium cycle) in energy destination: clone selection and planting material, planting, soil management, irrigation, fertilization, pest and disease control, production and harvesting, restoration of soils.
Practical activities
exercises in the classroom / laboratory - Planning systems for wood (bureaucratic process and project); forest certification
field activities - propagation, planting and pruning of tree species wood. Plant and cultivation techniques of orchards for the production of biomass for energy and / or materials for the industry;
Seminars with experts on issues concerning the sector
Visits to nurseries producing plants for wood and farm with orchards for wood and biomass production.

FRUIT TREES

Code 80205006
CFU 6
Teacher Franco Famiani
Teachers
  • Franco Famiani
Hours
  • 54 ore - Franco Famiani
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline della produzione vegetale
Academic discipline AGR/03
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Design, establishment and cultural techniques of an orchard in relation to the utilisation of the production and cultivation system (conventional, integrated or organic), with reference to the most important fruit tree species.
Reference texts AA.VV. - Frutticoltura speciale. Edizioni REDA, Roma.
F. Gorini - Conservare e Trasformare la frutta. Edizioni L'Informatore Agrario, Verona.
R. Valli - Arboricoltura generale e speciale. EDAGRICOLE, Bologna.
AA.VV. - Linee guida per l'agricoltura biologica - fruttiferi e fragola. EDAGRICOLE, Bologna.
S. Sansavini, A. Errani - Frutteti ad alta densità, EDAGRICOLE.
D.I. Jackson, N.E. Looney - Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production - 2nd Edition, CABI Publishing, UK.
AA.VV. - Manuali di corretta prassi per la produzione integrata del melo, del pesco e del susino, 3A-Parco Tecnologico Agroalimentare dell'Umbria - Regione dell'Umbria.
K. Lind, G. Lafer, K. Schloffer, G. Innerhofer, H. Meister - Organic Fruit Growing. CABI Publishing, UK.
Educational objectives The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of systems and techniques for a correct cultivation of the main fruit tree species, with particular regard given to safeness and quality of food and impact of the cultivation on the environment.
Prerequisites In order to understand the subjects of the course on the cultivation of plants for the production of food it is necessary that the students have a good background on agronomy and arboriculture.
Teaching methods Lectures on all the subjects of the course.

Exercise/Practical lectures, also in the field, on: determination, with different methods, of nutrient and water requirements of the different fruit tree species and set up of a fertililization and irrigation plan; training and production pruning of the different fruit tree species; design and management of an orchard cultivated according to a conventional, integrated or organic method; examination of different training and management systems applied to orchards of different fruit tree species.
Other information Attendance is not compulsory.
Place of teaching: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Studies of Perugia.
Learning verification modality The evaluation of the knowledge acquired by the student will be done through an exam which consits of an oral test.
The oral test consists on an interview, of about 1 hour, aiming at evaluating the knowledge acquired by the student and his/her ability to use it to establish and manage, in a profitable and environmental friendly way, herbaceous and tree crops for the food industry. The oral test will also allow to to evaluate the communication skills of the student.
Extended program Theorical lessons
Economic importance and distribution of fruit tree species. Rules, environmental impact and principles of conventional, integrated and organic cultivation of fruit tree species. Design, establishment and cultural techniques of an orchard in relation to the utilisation of the product and cultivation system (conventional, integrated or organic) for the following fruit species: apple, pear, peach, apricot, plum, cherry, citrus, kiwifruit, olive, grapevine, almond, chestnut, hazelnut, walnut. In particular, for each species the following subjects will be treated:
- botanical characteristics, phenology, floral and fruiting biology;
- soil and climatic requirements;
- choice of the environment, cultivar, pollinator, rootstock, plant type (at the nursery) and tree training system and spacing;
- plantation systems; - soil management (tillage, use of herbicides, mulching, green cover);
- fertilization of young and adult trees (determination of nutrient requirements of the trees; effects of fertilization on the tree vegetative development and production quantity and quality; fertilizers that can be used and time and modality of distribution);
- irrigation (determination of water requirements of the trees; effects of irrigation on the tree vegetative development and production quantity and quality; irrigation systems and timing);
- training and production pruning (time, modality and intensity);
- fruit harvesting (ripening indexes, time and modality), storage and utilization;
- new trends and achievements on cultural techniques, plantation systems and genetic improvement.

Practical lessons
Determination, with different methods, of nutrient and water requirements of the different fruit tree species and set up of a fertililization and irrigation plan. Example of training and production pruning of the different fruit tree species. Design and management of an orchard cultivated according to a conventional, integrated or organic method.

Practical lessons in the field
Examination of different training and management systems applied to orchards of different fruit tree species.
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