Training Systems

Code: FIT13803M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Agronomy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Fome zero e agricultura sustentável - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

- Identification and discussion about the main training factors of grapevine crop production.
-Field oriented experience about vine training, trellising, canopy management, irrigation and water management.
-Use the fitomonitorization equipment to evaluate some physiological parameters, and methods of crop adjustment for improvement of fruit quality.

- Planting and training young vines
- Ecophysiology. Relationships within the whole plant. PAR optimization. Canopy management. Water management. Water stress monitorization. RDI and PRD technologies of irrigation.- Influence of training factors in grapevine productivity and quality. Vine spacing, canopy expansion, rootstock vigour, soil fertility and water availability.
- Study of different training systems in different viticultural systems.
- Field oriented practices in grapevine production, including pruning weed identification, vine training, trellising, canopy management, water stress measurement, and sampling techniques.
- Fundamental parameters of the soil to consider when working with irrigation and water management. Obtaining the crop water requirements and deriving the need irrigation water applications. Use of the concepts of ETo, ETc and transpiration to calculate the crop requirements and irrigation amounts. Use of FAO crop coefficients.-Irrigation management

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lessons. Guided field lessons and demonstration of on-farm conditions; seminars with invited experts and discussion. Final written exam, work on specific topics presentation and discussion.The continuous assessment consists of 2 written frequency tests with 50% each. Alternatively, a final exam can be chosen.