The DLG Test Centre in Groß-Umstadt provides farmers with information that is an important decision-making aid for investments and practical use.
Around 3,000 experts contribute their know-how on a voluntary basis to committees, commissions and quality audits.
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The DLG food product tests supply consumers with neutral and independent findings regarding the quality of food products.
The Competence Center offers a broad range of events, expert conferences, seminars and training courses.
The right investments in West-Africa are those for the local market. It’s the imports and exports that give a company troubles. And the local market is big enough. Moreover: West-Africa is one enormous market.
The movement that sees increasing concentration of companies in the agrochemical sector has more than a few farmers bemused. Among the reasons for the mergers and takeovers are the huge costs of developing new products.
Especially since EU accession in 2007, Romania attracts foreign investors. Thirty EAF members visited the country and toured four large farms (3,000 to 6,500 ha) with foreign owners or shareholders.
To learn what lies behind this new test subject, we put three short questions to the new managing director of the DLG Test Center, Stefano Mastrogiovanni.

Growing potatoes is associated with a high workload which can be significantly reduced by the use of technology. In addition, high yield and a tuber quality suitable for exploitation presuppose intensive plant management while the crop is growing.
CJSC “Malkom Corporation” is a company with two main business segments. The first is the trade-purchasing activity on selling machinery, seeds, plant protection products and fertilizers. The second area is the agricultural production itself, that is cultivation of the following crops.Read more
DLG-Agrifuture Insights supplies essential information for agribusiness and farmers from the world’s most important agricultural regions.
DLG Agrifuture is the online information magazine for European agribusiness of the German Agricultural Society (DLG).