Découvrez comment un producteur de vin biologique de Kelowna, en Colombie-Britannique, lutte contre les ravageurs et les maladies, et pourquoi il considère que l’avenir est prometteur pour l'agriculture biologique au Canada.
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00:00 [Music]
00:04 I look at what's important for the future.
00:07 Do we want to exhaust our soils so that future generations die of hunger?
00:13 Or keep them healthy so that they continue to feed us?
00:18 [Music]
00:27 As I always say, organic farms don't look like a golf course.
00:33 You can see that many other plants grow in the vineyard.
00:38 These plants house some beneficial mushrooms and insects.
00:42 And they help us maintain balance in the vineyard or in the farm.
00:49 [Music]
00:53 We practice a culture of controlling insects and diseases.
00:58 The main insect in a vineyard is the cicada.
01:03 What happens when you reach about 20 degrees is that the insects start laying their eggs
01:10 on the first four or five leaves of the vine.
01:14 And when the eggs are almost ready to hatch, we send people into the vineyard.
01:22 I tell them, "Clean this area, just these four or five leaves.
01:27 Remove them and throw them on the ground."
01:30 Now the eggs are no longer moist, so they're no longer fertile.
01:34 We worked with the Summerland Research Centre to evaluate this method.
01:39 And we concluded that 72% of the population is controlled by doing this.
01:44 It also allows us to control the mushrooms in the grapes
01:48 because they're more exposed to the sun.
01:51 [Music]
01:54 If you don't do it, you don't learn.
01:57 I don't like to say no.
02:00 I think that when you say no, you fail without trying.
02:05 [Music]
02:08 90% of the wine is made in the vineyard.
02:12 And I can say that I'm very good at growing grapes.
02:16 [Music]
02:19 The future is very promising.
02:22 Because 27 years ago, when I started in the industry,
02:25 if you talked about organic culture, people immediately thought you were hippie.
02:31 But that image changes.
02:33 The general population is moving more and more towards organic.
02:38 And we have more information about organic culture.
02:43 People are looking for organic, and the new generation is better informed.
02:50 I think the future is very promising.
02:53 And it's going to expand.
02:55 For the wine industry, I think that in 5 to 10 years,
03:00 we'll probably have more than 50% of people practicing organic culture.
03:05 Because I see this change.
03:08 [Music]
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