POSTCOVA - Post Covid-19 Agricultural Bioscience Innovation (Wales) - Novel biotechnology increasing sustainable vegetable production in Wales providing diversification opportunities for farming and employment challenged by COVID-19 and Brexit pressures

**POSTCOVA** 是一项为期9个月的研究计划，旨在开发新兴解决方案，以确保威尔士农业部门在COVID后的恢复和发展。这将大大提高生产力，同时减少蔬菜生产对环境的影响。POSTCOVA** 通过提供技术直接解决与COVID相关的更广泛的英国蔬菜供应链中断问题，以立即提高威尔士目前的蔬菜种植生产力;目前低于英国大部分地区的潜力。这将改善该国的粮食安全，并为农村就业保障和其他部门失业者的进一步就业提供可能。POSTCOVA** 将获得实地试验数据，验证旨在提高农业生产效率和改善土壤碳储量的新型颠覆性技术，同时减少温室气体排放（一氧化二氮和二氧化碳），营养物质流入水道以及过度/低效使用农药和化肥。POSTCOVA** 旨在提高威尔士主要种植蔬菜的生产力（土豆、韭菜、卷心菜、花椰菜、布鲁塞尔芽菜和胡萝卜）。为了实现上述目标，一个以威尔士为中心的财团已经成立，由Emerald Research领导（土壤科学，精准农业和生物刺激剂开发者和创新者），由Lisk和Jones提供生物农药建议和管理（昆虫学专家和生物防治专家）。该财团将受益于目前威尔士最大的威尔士农产品供应商Puffin Produce的技术、运营和试验支持，以“Blas y Tir”的名义向多家主要零售商和批发商供应各种土豆和其他时令蔬菜（土地的味道）与进一步的项目，学术和研究支持生物复合材料中心在班戈尔大学。

**POSTCOVA** is a 9-month research programme developing emerging solutions to secure post-COVID recovery and development of the agricultural sector in Wales. This will significantly improve productivity while reducing the environmental impacts of vegetable production.**POSTCOVA** directly addresses the COVID-related disruption of the wider UK vegetable supply chain by providing technologies to immediately improve current vegetable farming productivity in Wales; currently lower than the potential like much of the UK. This will improve the country's food security and provide the potential for rural job security and further employment for those losing jobs in other sectors.**POSTCOVA** will obtain field trial data validating novel disruptive technologies geared to boost farming production efficiency and improving soil carbon reserves while reducing greenhouse gas emissions (nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide), runoff of nutrients into watercourses and over/inefficient use of pesticides and fertilisers.**POSTCOVA** aims to improve the productivity of key cultivated vegetables in Wales (potatoes, leeks, cabbages, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts and carrots).To deliver the above a Welsh-centred consortium has been formed and is led by Emerald Research (a soil science, precision agriculture and biostimulant developer & innovator) with biopesticide advice and management provided by Lisk and Jones (entomological specialists and biocontrol experts).The consortium will benefit from technical, operational and trials support from Puffin Produce currently the largest supplier of Welsh produce in Wales, supplying a wide variety of potatoes and other seasonal vegetables to multiple major retailers and wholesalers under the banner "Blas y Tir" (Taste of the Land) with further project, academic and research support from the Biocomposites Centre at Bangor University.