TECHNOLOGICAL NUANCES OF INDUSTRIAL COVERED VITICULTURE

Abstract

On industrial covered for winter vineyards the reaction of experimental vine varieties to vari-ous agrotechnical techniques (vine training sys-tem, age and arm length), their influence on productivity indictors and crop quality in the environmental conditions of the Rostov region and the Chechen Republic is shown. The func-tional dependence of the parameters of agro-biotechnological features on the developed agrotechnical techniques has been established. The optimal values for vine and eye number, plant productivity indicators, crop quality, labor productivity and economic efficiency were ob-served when using the long-arm training we proposed with a different combination of struc-tural elements, the method of vine pruning and the load rate of bushes. To conform the re-quirements of industrial technologies two 150−200 cm long arms are formed in bush structure with 2−4 branches on each arm. The principal requirement in the method is the for-mation of strict Z-shaped bend at the base of the arms which ensures the bushes after releas-ing from trellis, their strict orientation along the row and high-quality mechanized winter cover-ing of bushes by vinehandlers. In spring, after opening the bushes, the fruit vines grow at a height of 70−120 cm. (on the first and second levels of tree-leveled trellis). Vine is pruned at the length of 6−12 eyes, the load is 80−90 thousand shoots per hectare, with a bush plant-ing scheme 3×1.5−2.0 m. Such parameters of agricultural practices increase the productivity of plantings by 20−25 % with high technologi-cal conditions, and a reduction in labor expend-itures costs by 15−20 man-days per hectare.