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Advisory center Organic Farming
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research Support
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Exemplary demonstration network for expanding and improving cultivation and utilisation of soy beans in Germany - Subproject LLH
- Farm succession and business creation in organic farming
- Introductory seminars, conversion seminars and farm development seminars on organic farming for agricultural entrepreneurs
- Soil Fertility Project: Monitoring of 5 Hessian farms in the context of a work package
Involved in research projects
- Building a nationwide advisory practice network for the exchange of knowledge and methods in the areas of balance operating comparison (BV) and operating branch expansion (BZA)
- Development, testing and realization of the forecast model ECO-SIMPHYT for targeted control of late blight (P. infestans) in organic potato production with the aim of the use of copper-containing fungicides to be reduced to a minimum
- Improvement of the comparability of organic wheat variety tests to the detailed descriptions of varieties in the 'Beschreibende Sortenliste“ of Bundessortenamt (German plant variety office)
- Regulatory approaches to reduce wire worm damage
- Testing of potato varieties to their particular suitability for organic farming
Contact
Advisory center Organic Farming
Kölnische Str. 48-50
34117 Kassel
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)561 7299-372
Fax: +49 (0)611 3276091-84
Email: guenther.semmler(@)llh.hessen.de