CHANGE OF PARADIGM IN IMPROVING FRUIT SPECIES TO ADAPT BETTER TO ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

Summary in the original language of the document

European organic fruit production is very dependent on natural inputs because the varieties grown currently come from so-called ‘traditional’ improvement programmes. These varieties are not therefore generally suited to an organic production system.
To enable the development of alternative and more sustainable organic production systems, there’s a clear
need to create new improvement programmes whose objectives are to select varieties more tolerant to pests and diseases, more diverse, more robust and with differentiated taste and nutritional qualities. InnOBreed (2022-2026) aims to define new common bases to create improvement programmes
and testing networks specifically dedicated to organic production