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Pastopoulos Agronomics provides specialised agronomic advisory services to growers, producer groups and agricultural businesses. The services are provided for a fee, with a proper invoice.

The plantprotect.gr blog remains freely accessible. This page is about something different: an individual assessment of your own holding, with everything that entails in time, responsibility and documentation.

Please read before submitting Our advisory work is carried out on site, in the Giannitsa area of Pella, northern Greece. Requests from outside Greece can only be answered in writing, on the basis of the material you send, and any recommendation on plant protection products is subject to the approvals in force in your own country — the Greek approvals do not apply there.

What your request may concern

  • Diagnosis of a problem in an existing planting — symptoms, causes, order of action.
  • Assessment of a plot before planting — soil, water, climate, suitability of the crop.
  • Design of a new planting — cultivars, rootstocks, distances, training and support system.
  • A nutrition programme based on soil and water analysis.
  • A plant protection programme adapted to the area and to the crop.
  • A second opinion on a proposal or programme you have already received.
  • Annual monitoring of a planting with regular visits.

How the process works

  1. You submit the requestYou fill in the form below, in as much detail as you can. The more information you give, the more accurate the assessment.
  2. The scope is assessedWe examine what your question actually requires: whether a written answer is enough, whether analyses are needed, whether an on-site visit is necessary.
  3. You receive an offerYou are sent a written offer with the scope, the deliverable, the delivery time and the fee. Up to this point there is no financial commitment on your part.
  4. You accept or you do notIf the offer does not suit you, the matter ends there at no charge.
  5. An invoice for services is issuedOn acceptance, a proper invoice is issued to the details you provide.
  6. The service is delivered after paymentThe written opinion or the visit takes place after the invoice has been settled.
Why the fee is not fixed The fee is set by offer, according to the scope. A focused question with good photographs does not cost what an annual nutrition and plant protection programme for a large planting costs. There is no single price, because there is no single job.

Request form

Fields marked * are required. The request is forwarded to spagric@yahoo.gr.

Contact details

Crop details

The request

Photographs The form does not accept attachments. Send your photographs by ordinary email to spagric@yahoo.gr, giving your full name so that they can be matched to the request. Useful shots are: one of the whole tree, one close-up of the affected organ, and one general view of the field.

Invoicing details

To be completed only if you proceed. You may leave them blank now and send them when you accept the offer.

Terms and clarifications

Response timeThe request receives an initial reply with an offer. The delivery time of the service itself is set in the offer and runs from the date of payment.
What is not coveredFree answers to individual questions are not given through the form, by telephone or through social media. The form is a request for a service, not a question.
Limits of remote assessmentA written opinion is based solely on the information you declare. Some problems cannot be diagnosed without on-site examination or laboratory analysis. In those cases this is stated explicitly in the offer.
Plant protection productsAny recommendation concerns only products approved by the competent authority of the country of use for the particular crop, at the approved rates and with the prescribed safety intervals. For holdings in Greece these are the approvals of the Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food; Greek approvals do not apply in other countries. Final responsibility for application rests with the user.
ConfidentialityThe details of your holding are not disclosed to third parties and are not used in publications without your written consent.
Important

The advice provided constitutes an agronomic assessment based on the available information and does not guarantee any particular production outcome. Agricultural production is affected by factors outside the adviser's control, such as the weather.

Any spray applied to trees carrying fruit involves a risk of fruit marking and leaf burn. A prior trial on a limited number of trees is required before general application.

Direct contact

If you prefer, you can send your request directly by email:

spagric@yahoo.gr

Savvas Pastopoulos, Agronomist — Pastopoulos Agronomics, Neos Mylotopos, Pella, Greece.

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