The reduction of chemical crop protection is and remains a political goal. But what is this supposed to achieve? If there are not false expectations involved.
Sugar factories are real „energy guzzlers“ and have a correspondingly large CO2 footprint. But high emissions are also produced in the field and especially during transport. Reducing these costs a lot of money and will take years.
In times of heat and drought stress, what is the best way to keep water in the soil so that it is available for the plant at the right time? Heat in summer or even in spring and fall causes groundwater supplies to dwindle. But there are ways to keep water in the field, store it and even harvest it.
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.
Regenerative agriculture refers to holistic farming practices aiming to build up, maintain and improve soil health, biodiversity and the agro-ecological systems` capacities to deliver ecosystem services.
