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Tasmanian Sustainable Viticulture Program
“Sustainable production is an economically viable system in which production occurs without degrading or damaging the natural resources that support production, benefiting the property, the community, the broader environment and future generations.”
What is the TSVP?
The Tasmanian Sustainable Viticulture Programme (TSVP) is designed to provide a range of integrated tools, templates and protocols to Tasmanian winegrape growers for the purpose of evaluating, recording, improving and reporting their sustainability.
The reporting criteria dictate the minimum requirements to attain achievement of progress toward sustainability. It was initiated to accomplish two objectives:
1. To provide a template for all Tasmanian winegrowers to assess and improve their own sustainability against a set of Best Practice parameters and recognised metrics; and
2. To provide the evidence to the greater community that Tasmanian winegrowers take their stewardship of the landscape seriously.
The program will be membership driven and will offer a number of benefits.
Benefits of Membership
Whilst the core information (protocols, self assessment guides, templates etc) is available to all winegrowers to promote Wine Industry Tasmania's desire to see sustainable practices adopted on the widest scale possible, membership brings added benefits. The benefits arrive in the form of support in implementation (property planning, spray diaries, calibrations, adapting SOP’s etc), group discounts for nutrient testing and exclusive seminars/workshops. The final support is a randomised assessment of spray diaries and randomised residue tests to ensure that our system is working properly.
Wine Industry Tasmania is working with the Grape and Wine Research Development Corporation (GWRDC) to implement this program to benefit all viticulturalists statewide.
Field Workshops
A series of field visits to “walk through” what is currently envisioned for TSVP membership are planned in December 2009. Click here to download more information regarding the upcoming field visits and the TSVP in general.