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Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Departments belonging to the Centre for International Rural Development pursue a variety of objectives. The research conducted by them is, accordingly, of great diversity. The Centre strives for inter-disciplinary integration of its research programmes along with its mandate. Priority is given to research on sustainable resource use in rural tropical and subtropical areas. The Centre primarly supports inter-disciplinary research projects.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Advanced Monitoring of Tree Crops for Optimized Management - How to Cope With Variability in Soil and Plant Properties?
- Collaborative project: Design, construction and test of a trough for nuzzling to facilitate species-appropriate feeding of litterless pigs – Subproject 1
- Collaborative Project: Development of a sensor based system for application in flame weeding technology – Subproject 1
- COMASI - A comprehensive Analysis of Subsurface Irrigation in SSA for an Optimisation and Adaption of an Environmental friendly Irrigation Practice
- Decentralized post-harvest technologies to tap the value of neglected crops (ECON C)
- Development and evaluation of a stress-free slaughter system for outdoor cattle - Subproject 1
- Development and testing of vegetable pillars for city farming, as well as for education, public relations and marketing for the organic and sustainable food and farming sector
- Development of alternative ingredients for the improvement of organic pastry, pasta flour as well as dairy supplements an dairy additives based on Chinese yam 'dioscorea batatas'
- GlobE - Reduction of losses and value in food production, through the strengthening of small and medium sized companies by sustainably designing the supply chains of after-crop system in East Africa
- Improvement of pick-up technology for hay
- NABEL-use of waste heat from bio-energy in agriculture. Development and testing of a computer-based instrument for measuring and schematic display of optimized use concepts in agricultural BGA
- Technical discussion 'agricultural technology solutions for weed control in organic farming'
Contact
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics
Nordbahnhofstr. 1a
D-37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49 5542 98 1224
Fax: +49 5542 198 1520
Email: agrartechnik(@)uni-kassel.de
