Organic farming is often seen as the ideal way to meet numerous challenges facing agriculture. Anyway, it is too easy to draw a simple opposition between “organic” and “conventional” - a sustainable agriculture in the long term is needed.
Daniel Lampart from Switzerland has been a member of the DLG for over 12 years. He has a farm and grows grain maize, rapeseed, barley and wheat. He also keeps 4800 laying hens and runs a biogas plant. His second pillar is the planning and construction of biogas plants as managing director of the company Agrigas.
As a counterweight to China, the subcontinent is once again coming more strongly into Western focus. On the one hand, there are countless small farmers without technology or capital. On the other hand, there is accelerated mechanization, which is expected to stimulate growth in the agricultural machinery and supplier industry.
