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The LIFE Sarmiento project developed in Bullas received on 14 February the visit of EASME - Executive Agency of the European Commission for Small and Medium Enterprises responsible for monitoring the project.
As reported by the Department of Agriculture of the City of Bullas this project has a budget of 835,020 euros, of which the European Union subsidizes 60% (495,365 Euros) through the LIFE Program for the Environment.
The partners of the project are the wine cooperative Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Bullas and the Murcia companies Microgaia Biotech and EuroVértice.
The objective pursued by LIFE Sarmiento is to reduce CO2 emissions in vineyards, avoiding the burning of pruning waste, while improving climate governance through new land use practices.
The project began in September 2016 and will continue until December 2020.
During the visit, we had the opportunity to go to the urban micro-gardens of Bullas City Hall where the LIFE Sarmiento compost was applied.
There, the Head of Services of the City of Bullas and some of the users of the micro-gardens, could explain firsthand the benefits observed in their plots, both for the crop and for the soil, derived from the application of compost.
Throughout the day the plots of DO Bullas vineyards participating in the project were also visited and the area of ​​vine composting installed in the cooperative Nuestra Señora del Rosario was shown.
With the LIFE Sarmiento project, to date, the management of a total of 314 hectares of DO Bullas vineyard has been achieved, the treatment of 597.6 tons of vine shoots, avoiding their burning, the production of approximately 22,000 kg of substrate organic, the reduction of 98% of CO2 emissions and the application of the substrate obtained in vineyard plots and urban gardens.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas
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