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Optimization of the quality of organic substrates for growing seedlings in organic vegetable production, with special consideration of the practical implementation of the replacement of peat by fermented wood fibers
Project
Project code: 2802OE200F
Contract period: 21.06.2004
- 30.11.2006
Budget: 210,699 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
When this project is the continuation of the Federal Organic Farming Scheme and overflowed 02OE200 completed project. The continuation project is concerned with the production of organic substrates for growing seedlings, on the one hand with the redesign of the EU Regulation 2092/91 using the one organic compost will be compulsory from 2006 and is set on the other increasingly on peat in organic farming . The previously manufactured or tested substrates, the va consist of compost, manure and peat substitutes lead, however, always been failures. The reasons for this are not clear enough, but a correlation with the maturity or immaturity seems to consist of the substrates. Especially the short-term mixing of the above different components of the substrates during the growth leads to changes in the substrate itself, which may occur in extreme cases, to decay and similar processes. With the project accordingly following objectives are to: 1) Continue initiated introduction of peat in the production practice with the medium-term target of extensive peat, 2) further development of practice mature organic substrates in collaboration with the substrate manufacturers and seedling producers, 3) improve the maturity of quality the substrates and their components (compost, wood fiber), 4) demonstrate that maturity quality (analytical, plant tests), 5) development of solutions for the existing problems in practice in the use of organic substrates, 6) development of proposals for adapting the regulations on the redesign of the EU Regulation 2092/91.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Plant Nutrition
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
