An environmental-friendly approach for a productive olive orchard management

The productive performance of an olive orchard is strongly affected by the grower capacity in choosing, combining, and properly performing the several agronomical practices. Such expertise is taken into consideration by the recent agricultural European Union policy and at worldwide level, in order to support and encourage the use of production technologies aimed to preserve natural resources, to control environmental pollution, and to assure product quality. Some practical suggestions for a sustainable soil management and a proper irrigation and fertilization of olive orchards are presented in this paper taking into account the current and urgent environmental emergencies and what are the production expectations of olive growers.