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Reducing pest pressure and diversification of business operations through keeping poultry in mobile stables in organic managed orchards
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-Ni-2019-LPTTSKB-03
Contract period: 01.01.2019
- 31.12.2021
Budget: 462,802 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: farming practice/activity, animal husbandry, pest/disease control
The fruit production in Germany mainly takes place in regions with a favourable climate. In Lower Saxony this is the region “Altes Land”. The landscape is strongly embrassed by the orchards and fruit production. Specific pests find ideal living conditions in these regions because of the high concentration of fruit trees. This requires an intensive pestmanagement to prevent yield losses. Organic fruit producers are also highly specialized farms, which have a need of intensive organic pestcontrol. To control insects in the orchards is difficult, because, they occur in different morphological phases. The larvae of some pestinsects overwinter in the soil, where pestcontrol action can’t affect them. Insects are part of the natural feedbase of poultry and they have the natural instinct to search for insects in the soil. Besides this, the structure of the orchards is perfect for poultry yards. In the project the keeping of turkeys and laying hens will be compared on three organic fruit growing farms. It will be analyzed, how the animal-keeping can be integrated in the work flow of the farms.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
- Organic Farming
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Competence Center of organic farming in Lower Saxony GmbH (KÖN)
