“Viticoltura di qualità” di M. Fregoni – Ed. L’Informatore Agrario, 1998.
Learning Objectives
Competence acquired: essential operations in the vineyard management
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): efficient management of the vineyard.
Prerequisites
Courses required: Botany, Agronomy, General viticulture
Courses recommmended: see above.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical lessons with projection of text and slides.
Field exercises on the topics covered in the theoretical lessons.
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab: although not compulsory, is strongly recommended.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Course program
Planting of the vineyard (identification of the area, soil levelin and analysis, choice of the plant density, fertilizing).
Propagation of the vine with particular regard to the techniques used by modern viticultural nursery (stock plants, forcing the grafts cuttings, rooting in the field, eradication and sales).
Pruning and forms of training (with practical lessons on cordon pruning).
Harvest (manual and mechanical).
Cultivation techniques of the soil (tillage, grassing, mulching, weeding).
Elements of ampelography.