The main objective of the Action was to develop new microbial inoculants and promote their use in agriculture and environment.
This Action associated specialists of different micro-organisms and technologies, from public and private organizations, in order to develop new microbial inoculants and promote their use in agriculture and environment. Four objectives were to be achieved:
1) to promote and coordinate research required to develop the use of microbial inoculants in agriculture and environment, in connection with the CAP;
2) to provide know-how for increasing the competitiveness of European research and European inoculant companies at a crucial moment for the development of new management systems in agriculture, using biofertilizers and “biopesticides”;
3) to define efficacy criteria able to be checked in a quality control process, in order to raise the quality of European products and make them more competitive on the world market;
4) to provide new bases for guidelines to stimulate the use of microbial inoculants in place (or with) agrochemicals.
