Question 1

Portugal Nuts

Accepted Answer

Name: Portugal NutsCode: Norte-02-0853-FEDER-000004CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Ana Martins, Miguel TeixeiraOther Partner Institutions: Portugal NutsDuration: 2016 and 2017Abstract: This project aims to strengthen the competitiveness of small and medium-sized companies, specifically in their ability to produce, process and market dried fruit from Portugal, especially in the NUTS II region of the North and in low-density areas.The project, called "Portugal Nuts", consists in carrying out actions to identify and sensitize the critical factors of competitiveness, accomplished through a wide and detailed set of studies on the production and processing of nuts, through information actions on the supply of products both in Portugal and in international markets, promoting practices of cooperation and competition among SME’s in promoting business consolidation, promoting initiatives that will enhance information, positioning and market in strategic areas for growth sustained and competitive.The project aims to enable the region to increase the production of nuts, to increase the percentage of product that is processed and to improve marketing, promoting producers' organizations, processors and traders to be more entrepreneurial and based on good practices and still with forms of business definition (companies by quotas or anonymous) more competitive and evolved than today. The project also enables municipalities in the region (in the low-density territories of the North) to be able to support promoters and potential promoters more efficiently by creating a network that can truly foster the entrepreneurship of this region with regard to nuts and processed fruit.

Question 2

Biosave – Promoção do potencial económico e da sustentabilidade dos setores do azeite e castanha

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Name: Biosave - Promoção do potencial económico e da sustentabilidade dos setores do azeite e castanhaCode: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-023721CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Ana Martins, Miguel TeixeiraOther Partner Institutions: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, AcushlaDuration: 2017 e 2018Abstract: Biosave is a project that aims to control some diseases and key pests of the olive tree and the chestnut tree, participating the CNCFS in the tasks related to the chestnut tree, namely the fight against the chestnut wasp, with resources the means of biological and biotechnical struggle and the disease of the ink.Overall, this project aims to develop and implement sustainable strategies and agricultural practices that can be used by farmers to protect olive and nut crops. Functional biodiversity occurring in olive groves and groves (activity 1) will be studied considering an increasing gradient of soil management, irrigation and landscape heterogeneity. Soil arthropods and parasitoids from two important pests, namely the olive fly, which is the key pest of the crop and the chestnut wasp, will be identified (using morphological and ecological approaches , through the application of functional characteristics). In activity 2, biotechnical methods will be used against target pests and parameters such as efficacy and effects on non-target arthropods will be evaluated. Biodiversity recorded in treated versus untreated plants will be compared as well as the rate of attack of the target pests. The diseases will also be addressed in this project and in activity 3, will be carried out the detection and identification, using molecular methods, of Phytophthora specimens that infect chestnut trees. In activity 4 will be studied the influence of the nutritional status of plants, in particular nitrogen and calcium levels in the olive leaf, in the severity of the infection caused by peacock-eye.

Question 3

BioPest - Estratégias integradas de luta contra pragas-chave em espécies de frutos secos

Accepted Answer

Name: BioPest - Estratégias integradas de luta contra pragas-chave em espécies de frutos secosAction: 1.0.1 - Grupos OperacionaisAnnouncement nº: PDR2020-101-001Code: PDR2020-1.0.1-030960CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Rosalina Marrão, Sandra Teixeira, Albino Bento, Joana AraújoOther Partner Institutions: Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Refcast, Filipe Rodrigues Pereira, Cooperativa dos Lavradores do Centro e Norte, Agro Rio Bom, Lda, Associação Regional dos Agricultores das Terras de Montenegro, Cooperativa Agrícola de Alfândega da Fé, Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro, Associação Agro-Florestal e Ambiental da Terra Fria Transmontana, Cooperativa Agrícola de Produtores de Frutos de Casca Rija, Soutos os Cavaleiros, Associação Florestal Vale Douro Norte, Cooperativa Agrícola de Penela da Beira, Proruris, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Associação Florestal do Lima.Duration: 2016 e 2020Abstract: The aim of this initiative is to monitor the key pests of these crops, to observe the occurrence periods, to evaluate the damage they cause, to introduce and apply biotechnical and biological control measures and to promote the functional biodiversity associated with the agricultural system. improve fruit quality, productivity and the sustainability of crops.

Question 4

ValNuts- Valorização dos frutos secos de casca rija

Accepted Answer

Name: ValNuts- Valorização dos frutos secos de casca rijaCode: PDR2020-1.0.1-030758CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Rosalina Marrão, Sandra Teixeira, Carlos Silva, AlbinoBentoOther Partner Institutions : mendouro, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Cooperativa Agrícola de Penela da Beira, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro, PabiDuration: 2017 e 2020Abstract: The main objective of this proposal is to valorise and maximize the production of almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts in Portugal, in order to better understand and regularize the existing market, adjusting it to existing supply and demand, and promoting the export capacity of the national producers of these nuts.

Question 5

ValorNatural: Valorização de Recursos Naturais através da Extração de Ingredientes de Elevado Valor Acrescentado para Aplicações na Indústria Alimentar

Accepted Answer

Name: ValorNatural: Valorização de Recursos Naturais através da Extração de Ingredientes de Elevado Valor Acrescentado para Aplicações na Indústria AlimentarCode: NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-024479CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Rosalina Marrão, Sandra TeixeiraOther Partner Institutions: TecPan - Tecnologia e Produtos para Pastelaria e Panificação Lda, Novavet - Produtos Agro - Pecuários, Lda, Afonso Lopes & Cª. Lda, Arménio Adérito Vaz, Deifil Technology Lda, Pragmático Aroma Lda, M. Ferreira e Filhas Lda, Cooperativa Agrícola de Alfândega da Fé CRL, Paralab - Equipamentos Industriais e de Laboratório S.A, Quinta Holminhos - Unipessoal, Lda, Vera Mata – Soluções Perfumadas, Lda, Earth Essences Lda, Ponto Agrícola Unipessoal Lda, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal, Instituto de Soldadura e QualidadeDuration: 2017 e 2020Abstract: This project aims at the use of some vegetable by-products as substitutes for some food chemicals. This project is still being evaluated. The participation of the CNCFS in the "Valor Natural" project is of extreme importance for the Dry Fruits sector, as it will allow the improvement of the efficiency in the use of natural resources, namely the chestnut flower, through the reuse of the by-products of the crops. This project has a strong component of innovation in the production of tradable goods, which will increase the capacity to generate value added from the residues / by-products of a crop, which at the moment are of no use, thus increasing the creation of job.

Question 6

ValorMais: Criação de valor com os subprodutos agrícolas, agroalimentares e florestais

Accepted Answer

Name: ValorMais: Criação de valor com os subprodutos agrícolas, agroalimentares e florestaisAction: 20.2.4 - Assistência técnica RRN - Área 4 (Observação da agricultura e dos territórios rurais)Code: PDR2020-20.2.4-032957CNCFS Techical Team: Ana Santos, Rosalina Marrão, Sandra TeixeiraOther Partner Institutions : orestis - Associação Florestal de Portugal, Centro de Competências para o Tomate Industria, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Associação BLC3 - Campus de Tecnologia e Inovação, APPITAD – Associação de Produtores em Proteção Integrada de Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroDuration: 2017 e 2019Abstract: The present operation aims to provide a platform for the valorization of the by-products of the agricultural, agri-food and forestry sectors, through material valorization, organic valorization and energy valorization.