Treatments report: a tool for sustainable agriculture. An assessment for the nitrogen footprint of peaches and nectarines in the north of Italy

At European level, agriculture is responsible of 11% of all GHGs, and represents a significant fac-tor for the atmosphere emissions, due to fertilizers and in particular Ammonia (NH3). Despite this environmental issue, few scientific literatures focused on an important document, formally called “Treatments Report”, which is mandatory for European farmers. This research explained the potential of this tool, particularly for the assessment of the Nitrogen Footprint. Detailing, the “Treatment Report” displays many other data, whose collection and analysis allow to achieve other purposes, concerning the irrigation and rainfall impacts, the percentage of Nitro-gen (N), Potassium (K) and Phosphor (P) and the pesticide amounts in the cultivated fields. In this paper, the authors analyzed some reports elaborated by farmers of Northern Italy and combined these primary data with secondary ones from scientific literature to assess Nitrogen Foot-print of the peach and nectarine. Furthermore, an observation of the used conventional agricultural systems of the reference crops has been provided. The results are going to support practitioners and other stakeholders to use such synthetic tool achieving a more efficient and sustainable agricultural context and increasing the interest of scholars.