All posts by: trid

German organic producer takes on Danone

by in News 30 January, 2019

The German brewery Neumarkter Lammsbräu has issued a warning to the Danone Group on behalf of the Quality Association for Organic Mineral Water and numerous medium-sized mineral wells. Because its mineral water subsidiary Volvic advertises its water with the terms “Naturally organic” and “Premium mineral water in organic quality”. “Volvic is not organic mineral water […]

SOILVEG – Improving soil conservation and resource use in organic cropping systems for vegetable production

by in News 30 January, 2019

What’s the best way to manage Agroecological Service Crops? Comparing the usual management of ASC as green manure vs the use of roller crimper in a no till system, SoilVeg found that the latter generate an higher overall environment benefit, although with lower yields. SoilVeg is an applied research European project involving 9 European countries and 14 […]

Examples of future-oriented organic farming

by in News 30 January, 2019

A lot of yield on a small area – for organic farmers this should be possible with elaborated organic cultivation methods. Examples have been outlined at the conference “New concepts for an agro-ecological and future-oriented agriculture”. They were presented by the German foundation “Ökologie&Landbau” together with the network “Öko-Junglandwirte” and the University of Kiel. Les jardins de la grelinette Man instead […]

Dynamic developments in organic research – strengthening partnerships across Europe and beyond

by in News 30 January, 2019

For the first time the 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences (ICOAS) was held in Austria from 7 – 9 November. High-level international experts met at Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, to exchange knowledge and experiences from different areas of organic production. The three-day conference was organized as a joint project by the Research Institute of […]

Serbia at the “Biofach Fair”

by in Event Calendar 28 January, 2019

“Biofach” represents the leading global organic sector fair which will be held from February 13 -16, 2019 in Nurnberg in Germany. Presentation of the Serbian companies dealing with organic agricultural production at this fair helps to increase the value of the Serbian organic products in the foreign markets and contributes to the increase of the […]