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A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2023 | Viewed by 9359

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Dr. Yishai Netzer

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1. Department of Chemical engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
2. Eastern R&D Center, Ariel 40700, Israel
Interests: viticulturer; applied physiology; agrotechnology; irrigation; pruning methods; rootstock; evapotranspiration modeling; machine learning modeling; wine quality; vegetation assessment

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Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture has always been a significant challenge, especially in times of frequent and rapid global changes, the viticulture world being even more challenging and complex, since, alongside old traditions, scientific and technological innovation is developing at a rapid pace.

The great challenges of viticulture are related to climate change, the manpower shortage and limited resources, along with a desire to improve profitability and wine quality while maintaining the principles of sustainability. Existing solutions to oncoming challenges can emerge from the classic world of breading, irrigation, fertilization, pruning, canopy and pest managements and other agrotechnical practices, or from the world of artificial intelligence, remote sensing or advanced sensors, the combinations between innovative methods and classical methods yielding profitable and sustainable solutions possibly meeting the requirements of new challenges.

This Special Issue focuses on agrotechnical solutions for more profitable and sustainable viticulture, welcoming research works that include wine quality, and original research articles and reviews are accepted.

Dr. Yishai Netzer
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agrotechnology
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Long-Term Trends of Global Wine Market

Noa Ohana-Levi

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Yishai Netzer

Agriculture 2023, 13(1), 224; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13010224 - 16 Jan 2023

Cited by 2 | Viewed by 3991

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The major factors of wine trade have been showing distinct patterns of temporal trends worldwide in past decades. Wine consumption, production, imports, and exports differ according to their location and classification to Old World and New World wine markets. Using datasets from various sources, this work focused on quantifying long-term trends (1995–2021) of these wine industry factors for each country, including long-term means and temporal trends, using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and resulting in Z-scores. The temporal relationships between these global factors were quantified by applying Pearson correlation to the original values, as well as by correlating the Z-scores. Our findings show that Old World wine consumers and producers (e.g., Spain, France, and Italy) have been experiencing gradual decreasing trends of wine consumption and production. In New World countries, some of the largest wine-consuming countries were found to have strong, significant increases in wine consumption and new wine production markets show rapid growth trends. About 80% of the countries demonstrated increasing trends of wine imports, signifying the impact of globalization on the wine market and the growing demand for foreign wine. Globally, consumption per capita was found to have significantly decreased. Wine production showed a strong, significant, and lagged dependence on wine consumption, which was also related to the temporal trends of wine imports and exports. The major forces driving the wine market are possibly economic growth and wider competition, with climate change acting as a disruptive force. Full article

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Establishment of Potassium Reference Values Using Bayesian Models in Grapevines

Adriele Tassinari

Eduardo Maciel Haitzmann dos Santos

Lincon Oliveira Stefanello

Beatriz Baticini Vitto

Gustavo Nogara de Siqueira

Raí Augusto Schwalbert

Carlos Alberto Ceretta

Filipe Nunes de Oliveira

Elena Baldi

Moreno Toselli

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Gustavo Brunetto

Agriculture 2022, 12(11), 1867; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12111867 - 08 Nov 2022

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Critical levels (CL) of available potassium (K) in soils and leaves and maximum technical efficiency (MTE) doses are relevant information to define the best K fertilization strategies. The aim of this study was to determine reference values of K in leaves and soil, using Bayesian analysis, in order to maximize grape yield and must quality of ‘Chardonnay’ and ‘Pinot Noir’ grown in a subtropical climate. The vines were subjected to applications of 0, 20, 40, 60 and 80 kg K₂O ha⁻¹ year⁻¹. The CL and MTE doses of K, in leaves and soils, were determined using Bayesian hierarchical models. The range of probability of the occurrence of CL in leaves was 15.8 to 18.9 g K kg⁻¹ in ‘Chardonnay’ and 16.8 to 19.1 g K kg⁻¹ in ‘Pinot Noir’ at flowering. Moreover, the range was 15.3 to 18.1 g K kg⁻¹ in ‘Chardonnay’ and 16.1 to 18.2 g K kg⁻¹ in ‘Pinot Noir’ at veraison. In the soil, the CL of available K for ‘Chardonnay’ was 27.4 mg K kg⁻¹ and for ‘Pinot Noir’ it was 23.2 mg K kg⁻¹. The increase of K in leaves and soil increased the TSS, while the TTA decreased in both cultivars after sufficiency rate. The MTE was estimated in ‘Pinot Noir’. The proposition of CL and/or MTE doses of K can help increase the efficiency of K fertilization in vineyards. Full article

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Wine Tourism—A Sustainable Management Tool for Rural Development and Vineyards: Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Consumer Profile from Romania and Moldova

Flavia Dana Oltean

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Manuela Rozalia Gabor

Agriculture 2022, 12(10), 1614; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12101614 - 05 Oct 2022

Cited by 7 | Viewed by 1479

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In recent years, tourism products and services have been oriented to offer more experiences than those of classical leisure activities for tourists. More, the COVID-19 pandemic drew a new trend in travel: the tourists are now oriented to internal offers rather than the external ones, to rural regions instead of urban ones. Romania and Moldova are two well-known international countries that are both producers and exporters of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) wine. The aim of the paper is to analyze (qualitative and quantitative) the motivation of tourists from Romania and Moldova for wine tourism, to model the motivation according to the socio-demographic characteristics of tourists and the specific elements for travel (accommodation, frequencies of visit, average stay). For quantitative analysis, an online questionnaire by convenience sampling was used to collect the data, and statistical methods were used for analysis. Even if these countries have cultural similarities, our results indicate statistically significant different motivations and different profiles of wine tourists. By using a co-occurrence link between the terms from WoS and Scopus scientific articles with VOSviewer software, our results indicate a link between wine tourism, rural and festivals tourism, and cultural heritage. Our research fills a gap in the literature, being the first comparative research on wine tourism in Romania and Moldova. Full article

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Forever Young? Late Shoot Pruning Affects Phenological Development, Physiology, Yield and Wine Quality of Vitis vinifera cv. Malbec

Yishai Netzer

Yedidya Suued

Matanya Harel

Danielle Ferman-Mintz

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Agriculture 2022, 12(5), 605; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12050605 - 25 Apr 2022

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‘Malbec’ grapevines commonly have high yield, thus intermittently negatively affecting wine quality parameters. Here, we describe the use of late shoot pruning (LSP) practice applied for wine quality improvement. We examined the effect of timing of LSP on ‘Malbec’ vines grown in Mediterranean conditions during three consecutive seasons (2016–2018) in Israel. The timing of LSP treatment applications (applied one, two and three weeks after bud break) were compared with cluster-thinned, winter-pruned vines (WP + T) and standard winter pruning (WP). The LSP practice postponed bud break of target buds but did not have a temporal effect on the onset of veraison. Midday stem water potential was less negative and stomatal conductance and net CO₂ assimilation rate were higher in the LSP vines. This practice led to a substantial reduction in the number of clusters and crop yield. Finally, wine quality was positively affected by applying LSP treatment. Performing the inexpensive LSP treatment at the precise timing after bud burst was found to save labor, decrease crop yield and improve grape and wine parameters. LSP application should be considered in adequate varieties as a significant tool for the enhanced effectiveness of vine growing in warm regions. Full article

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