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U2E Domaine d’Epoisses - INRAE

The INRA Unit « Domaine d’Epoisses » is an experimental farm specialised to in field arable crops experimentation, on 140 hectares. The two main missions of the unit are (i) to contribute to plant breeding and the development of cultivars adapted to agroecological systems, and (ii) to contribute to the design and evaluation of cropping systems that promote integrated crop protection and agroecology.

Within the “Domaine d’Epoisses”, The CA-SYS platform is experimenting since the summer 2018, a diversity of pesticide-free agroecological systems for field crops (wheat, barley, rapeseed, pea, soybean, fababean, etc.). Neither pesticides, nor bioproducts is applied in the CA-SYS platform. The overarching objective of the CA-SYS platform is to design and test the feasibility and performance of pesticide-free agriculture using (cropped and wild) biodiversity in support of production, i.e. biodiversity-based forms of agriculture. Four pesticide-free cropping systems are tested, mobilizing a wide diversity of crops in a temporal (at the scale of crop succession) and spatial (mixtures of species and/or varieties) way. The spatio-temporal arrangement of fields and semi-natural habitats is considered as a coherent strategy, implemented to meet specific goals.

The main participants are: Violaine Deytieux, Pascal Farcy, Brice Mosa, Philippe Chamoy, Benjamin Pouilly, Pascale Michel, Jérémy Gervais

The total number of the permanent staff is 17.

Modification date: 04 July 2023 | Publication date: 14 June 2021 | By: OR