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Competence Center of organic farming in Lower Saxony GmbH (KÖN)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research Support
Coordinated projects
- Better baking with less protein – a way to more organically produced quality wheat from Lower Saxony
- Collaborative project: Competence and practice research network for the further development of nutrient management in organic agriculture. Subproject 6
- Coloured blooming winter peas in pig feed under the conditions of organic farming
- Comparison of winter oat species as regards winter hardiness, yield potential and plant health
- Cultivation data collection and evaluation of organic sugar beet
- Development and assessment of direct control of Alternaria leaf blight (Alternaria dauci) in carrot cultivation for industrial processing
- Evaluation and further development of practical perennial flower seed mixes for organic farming in terms of nature conservation
- Innovative herd protection
- Integrating the latest research findings to an overall concept for the regulation of downy mildew on onions in ecological farming: variety selection and cultivation practices
- Intensification of the production and the improvement of the quality of seed onion by the selection of variety and strategy of fertilisation
- Knowledge transfer and demonstration network for expanding and improving the cultivation and utilisation of grain legumes in Germany
- OpenOrganicFarm
- Optimization of methods to plant perennial flower strips with wild plants of regional provenances and developing locally adapted seed mixtures with special consideration of the requirements of organic farming
- Promoting the biodiversity of insects in agriculture by avoiding chemical-synthetic insecticides and herbicides. Project coordination, support for farms and overarching tasks
- Reducing pest pressure and diversification of business operations through keeping poultry in mobile stables in organic managed orchards
- Robust-Turkey
- Status-quo-analysis and elaboration of action options for the intensified integration of organic farming in the vocational education of farmers, gardeners and winemakers
- Use of composts made of biowaste and treated compost in organic potato production
Involved in research projects
- Application of naturally occurring antagonists of the cabbage white fly (Aleyrodes pro-letella) in organic brassica crops in combination with netting
- Arable plans - the implementation of more conservation measures on organic farms
- Better baking with less protein – a way to more organically produced quality wheat from Lower Saxony
- Comparison of winter field beans regarding winter hardiness, yield potential and plant health
- Comparison of winter field beans regarding winter hardiness, yield potential and plant health
- Determining the optimal sowing dates and make-a-wintering green manure legumes for sustainable plant-nematode control in organic vegetables
- Enhancement of the variety spectrum of summer peas
- Establishment of native protein feed in Lower Saxony
- New strategies for growing onions as a precautionary measure to prevent diseases (downy mildew, Fusarium) in the onion crop
- ntegrating the latest research findings into an overall concept for the regulation of downy mildew on onions in ecological farming: varieties, cultivation practices and prospects of use of biocontrol agents
- The benefit of a legume-mix (faba beans, peas, lupines) which has been conditioned by hydrothermical treatment in pig-feeding
Contact
Competence Center of organic farming in Lower Saxony GmbH
(KÖN)
Bahnhofstr.15
27374 Visselhövede
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: 04262 95 93-00
Fax: 04262 95 93-77
Email: info(@)oeko-komp.de