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Methods for estimating soil erosion in organic farming
Project
Project code: 2806OE256
Contract period: 15.11.2007
- 31.12.2009
Budget: 62,191 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Especially in organic farming, it is important to promote environmentally friendly farming by a natural way of life processes and resources to be protected by the careful use and maintain. Relative to the ground to soil fertility can be preserved and improved soil quality and soil life and soil structure can be improved. But also in organic farming the soil is vulnerable to different effects. Foremost among these is the erosion, which mainly caused major damage to water erosion. To estimate the various water erosion models were developed. One of the models developed in the United States is the 'Universal Soil Loss Equation' model, in the form of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) has been adapted to German conditions. This adjustment, however, production of organic agriculture have been ignored, so it can occur under such conditions misjudgments, as was exemplified on the basis of examination results of a long-term study at the Experimental Station Scheyern in the application. From this perspective, the scope of the Universal Soil Loss limited to rather conventional farming systems. The aim of this project is therefore to adapt the existing 'General Soil Loss Equation (USLE),' the conditions of organic farming. So that any possible effects of organic farming with respect to their potential effect on the Abtragsgeschehen checked and implemented where possible, the effect in the form of algorithms or parameter values and integrated with the USLE.
Section overview
Subjects
- Soil science
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
