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Horticulture Centre (KOGA)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The objective of the Horticulture Centre of Excellence (Koga) safeguarding and promoting the efficiency and competitiveness in research and education in horticulture and the development, optimization and deployment of new technologies for use in horticulture. The Horticulture Centre of Excellence acts as an integrative platform for inter-and transdisciplinary work and opens up the potential of the resources contributed by the partners for the horticultural research. Other objects and objectives the identification of priority horticultural scientific problems in the recruitment and support of interdisciplinary working groups for the scientific project work the acquisition of external funding for joint research projects the development of new products and technologies the study, teaching, training and education function the enrichment of teaching and training of undergraduates and graduate students by facilitating the interaction with active interdisciplinary research and project groups support for the external representation of current scientific research, horticulture and public relations activities enabling a rapid transfer of research results in the target groups and bodies.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Agrophotovoltaics as a resilience concept for adaptation to climate change in fruit growing. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development of an entire strategy including direct and indirect measures to replace resp. reduce the amount of copper applied in order to regulate fungal pathogens in organic fruit production. Coordination
- Collaborative project: Reduction of ascosporic inoculum of Venturia inaequalis by removing leaf litter to replace copper-based fungicides in organic apple production
- Collaborative project: Sustainable development of the general concept of plant protection in organic fruit growing including relevant aspects of the society as a whole based on five years database of the application of measures relevant for plant protection in practice
- Development of a strategy to reduce or substitution of copper for scab control in organic fruit growing
- Development of strategies of resistance and virulence management for the codling moth granulovirus in organic fruit production
- Establishing a strategy to reduce the investment of copper for scab control in organic apple growing
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 3: Analysis of the quality
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 5: Training concerning hygiene during preparation and storage of fruit and vegetables
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 6: Pilot project
- Innovative Cropping Techniques to increase soil health in organic fruit tree crops
- Quality assurance in organic medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation - Workshop series for the training of agricultural and horticultural enterprises
- Verbundvorhaben: Erarbeitung von Bausteinen zur Optimierung der Regulierung der Apfelsägewespe, der Rotbeinigen Baumwanze und von Schalenwicklern und optimale Integration in die Gesamtstrategie zur Insektenregulierung im Ökologischen Kernobstanbau
Involved in research projects
- Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems
- Examination of possible treatments of mechanical pruning in organic apple production - especially with regard to pathogens and pests
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 1: Status quo-analysis and project design
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 2: Qualitative analysis of the current supply system of the EU-Schulobstprogramm NRW
- Frucht macht Schule. Work package 4: Holistic examination of the qualitative studies
- Frucht macht Schule. Work packages 7 + 8: Public relations and transfer of knowledge + Project management
Contact
Horticulture Centre
(KOGA)
Meckenheimer Straße 40
53359 Rheinbach
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: 49-(0)2225-7854
Fax: 49-(0) 228-73-2140
Email: mail(@)ko-ga.eu
