AEIFORIA aims to provide a number of services to agricultural and food companies, industry and companies that produce, sell and commercialize chemical substances and technologies in the agrochemical sector.

Mitigation of point source and diffuse contamination by agrochemicals

Surface waters are often contaminated by agrochemicals. Different techniques could be implemented to reduce the undesirable effects.

Contamination of groundwater in the Po valley

To measure the contamination of groundwater in agricultural ecosystems.

Contamination of groundwater in the Po valley

Question

To measure the contamination of groundwater in agricultural ecosystems.

Methodology

Description of fate of waters after their use in agriculture
Collection of information to provide previsional models
Evaluation of environmental and consumer risk

Answer

A permanent network of 10 experimental fields with specific piezometers and meteo stations, cultivated under the normal agricultural practices, with a perfect knowledge of the hydrogeological and pedological conditions, representative of the agricultural soils of Europe, is an excellent opportunity to test the contaminants in the real agronomic open field conditions.