From the maintenance of the truffle area to the consumption of the truffle
With a focus on the black truffle(Tuber melanosporum) and the white truffle(Tuber magnatum)
- Participatory theory courses
- Practical work in the laboratory or in the field
- Sharing experience with experienced truffle growers and representatives of the truffle industry
➡ Training eligible for VIVEA funding for non-salaried agricultural workers
Check out the detailed program below ⤵️
Hourly Schedule
Day 1 - Wednesday, May the 3rd, 2023
- 9h00 - 12h00
- Theoretical course in the classroom
- - Maintenance of truffle plantations in production age: grass control, soil work, watering, spore supply, temperature management - Presentation of a technical itinerary of a productive white truffle Tuber magnatum
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Speakers:
Aurore Clément, Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
- 14h00 - 15h00
- Theoretical course in the classroom
- - What to do when a plantation does not produce?
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Speakers:
Aurore Clément, Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
- 15h00 - 17h00
- Professionals of the sector speak out
- - Exchange with an experienced truffle grower and presentation of an agritourism project
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Speakers:
Michel Tournayre
Day 2 - Thursday, May the 4th, 2023
- 9h00 - 17h00
- Field visits - Bus travel for the day
- - Productive and not yet productive truffle fields - Presentation of management methods Interaction with truffle growers
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Speakers:
Aurore Clément, Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
- Practical work
- - Root sampling in truffle fields
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Speakers:
Aurore Clément, Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
Day 3 - Friday, May 5, 2023
- 9h00 - 10h45
- Practical work
- Morphological and DNA identification of mycorrhizae on roots collected the day before
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Speakers:
Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
- 11h00 - 12h00
- Professionals of the sector speak out
- - Marketing, markets, truffle processing
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Speakers:
Nicolas Rouhier
- 14h00 - 15h00
- Professionals of the sector speak out
- - Truffle cooking and presentation of an agritourism project
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Speakers:
Virginie Simian
- 15h00 - 16h30
- Indoor assessment
- - Conclusion of the training - General discussion - Evaluation of knowledge
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Speakers:
Aurore Clément, Claude Murat, Flora Todesco
Claude Murat
INRAE Research Engineer and co-founder of WETRUF
Michel Tournayre
President of the European Truffle and Trufficulture Group
Les Truffières d'Uzès; President of the European Truffle Group and
Trufficulture and ex-president of the French Federation of Truffle Growers
Nicolas Rouhier
General Manager PLANTIN
Virginie Simian
Truffle grower
Les Eybrachas Farm
