Central Baltic Project Database - Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

BreedExpo helped agricultural producers enter new markets

Ari Brozinski — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:38:48 +0000

The main objective of BreedExpo project was to support agricultural producers from CB area, who are interested in exporting breeding animals, to enter into new markets: Kazahstan, Georgia and Ukraine.

Cooperation between farmers’ organisations and joint actions enabled to get more attention and higher interest in new target markets, and to optimize the costs of marketing activities. As CB markets and individual farms are quite small compared to selected target markets, it is quite difficult for individual farmers to make deals and get sales. Working together and making joint sales contracts allows to meet needs of big farms in Kazakhstan, Georgia or Ukraine.

As a result of the project a strong cluster cooperation was established involving ca 600 farmers and 8 breeding and export companies and associations from project area. 36 farmers participated actively in export activities (contact visits to target markets, participation in agricultural exhibitions). Ca 100 farmers sold their cattle through local intermediary organisations to 3 selected target markets during project implementation period: 27 deliveries were organised to Georgia, 20 to Kazakhstan and 3 to Ukraine. The amount of the sales was ca 2,7 million euros. In total ca 1300 beef cattle and ca 870 dairy cattle were sold to target markets.

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clustering and economic cooperation

SME and entrepreneurship

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

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New cluster co-operation exporting to new markets

At a glance text:

Strong cluster operation
600 farmers and 8 companies involved
Total amount of sales value ca 2,7 million euros
Over 2000 cattles sold

Project link:

Meta cluster for exporting breeding animals to new markets

GreenAgri reduced the leaching of nutrients from agriculture to surface water and Baltic Sea

kersti — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:49:50 +0000

GreenAgri introduced and tested environmentally-friendly management of organic fertilizers in Estonia and Latvia. The project worked in several fields:

Increased the knowledge, awareness of farmers, governmental agencies in Estonia and Latvia

Project developed a number of reviews and studies analysing manure application technologies, manure storage and also manure handling economic aspects of the various stages. The documents developed can be accessed in our programme project results database and also project partners websites.

Introduced new methods and technologies to reduce nutrient runoffs

22 farms were selected to participate in the test programme in both countries.

The opportunities for improving soil fertility, productivity and also to reduce nutrient losses were explored in test farms in cooperation with experts. The farms carried out soil, water and manure analyses, organized crop rotations and prepared manure application plans. Farmers also had possibility to be acquainted with best practices Denmark and Finland. The entrepreneurs participated also in a whole series of trainings. Manure and soil analyses were performed in demo fields from the spring of 2017 until the end of 2018.

The main finding of the evaluation of the activities of the demo farms was the fertilization plan is key to the efficient management of manure, both environmentally and economically point of view.

Improved co-operation between farmers and governmental organizations in development and implementation of environmental regulations

Interested parties (legislation creators, paying agencies, supervisors, consultants and farmers) met at joint events to cover all relevant issues.

The impact of implemented project activities to the nutrient content in the soil reveals during longer period of time. It can be concluded that in most of the pilot farms the improvements were achieved or are likely to be achieved in regard reducing the inflows of nutrients into ground water.

The project has developed and uploaded following material:

Comparative Survey of Manure Spreading Technologies
GreenAgri brochure (In Estonian)

For more information, visit the project website: www.epkk.ee/greenagri

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Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Waterways lakes and rivers

Sustainable management of natural resources

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GreenAgri orgaanilise vaetise keskkonnasobralik majandamine

Analysis of investment needs of farmers arising from the requirements of the Water Act (EST)

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Reduction of nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflow into the Baltic

At a glance text:

Increased the knowledge, awareness of farmers, governmental agencies in Estonia and Latvia
Introduced new methods and technologies to reduce nutrient runoffs
Improved co-operation between farmers and governmental organizations in development and implementation of environmental regulations

Project link:

Environmentally-friendly Management of Organic Fertilizers in Agriculture

NUTRINFLOW: Sustainable and approachable nutrient reduction

kersti — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:43:08 +0000

Knowledge gained from the pilot sites serve as a reference for a holisitic drainage management, offering farmers and other stake-holder organisations important information on these issues. The project also increased general awareness among farmers, advisors and municipal authorities and services on drainage techniques and approaches to integrate field and basic drainage measures. Due to its high relevance, good implementation and re-usability of results, the project gained the Baltic Sea Strategy Flagship (Flow Baltic) status. The outcomes of the NUTRINFLOW will be further utilised by the Ministry of Agriculture to prepare suggestions on nutrient retention measures in agricultural drainage to be supported in Latvia during the next planning period of the Common Agricultural Policy (2021-2027).

Project website: nutrinflow.eu

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Water management

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

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Reduction of nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflow into the Baltic

At a glance text:

• Reduced nutrients from agriculture to immediate water-sheds and into the Baltic Sea
• Five pilot sites with good experiences
• EUSBSR flagship project

Project link:

Practical actions for holistic drainage management for reduced nutrient inflow to Baltic Sea

NUTRINFLOW - Sustainable and approachable nutrient reduction

Ari Brozinski — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:13:01 +0000

NUTRINFLOW reduced nutrient losses from agriculture to immediate watersheds and into the Baltic Sea. Reduction was achieved through pilot investments implemented in Finland, Sweden and Latvia, where various nutrient sources were targeted.

Instead of the planned five nutrient sources, the project ended up choosing 11 sources. Actions included river channel restorations, building wetlands and flood plains, mounting or renovating culverts and improving subsurface drainage. Direct improvements from these actions were reduced nutrient losses in phosphorus and nitrogen.

Knowledge gained from the pilot sites serve as a reference for a holisitic drainage management, offering farmers and other stakeholder organisations important information on these issues. The project also increased general awareness among farmers, advisors and municipal authorities and services on drainage techniques and approaches to integrate field and basic drainage measures.

Due to its high relevance, good implementation and re-usability of results, the project gained the Baltic Sea Strategy Flagship (Flow Baltic) status.

The outcomes of the NUTRINFLOW will be further utilised by the Ministry of Agriculture to prepare suggestions on nutrient retention measures in agricultural drainage to be supported in Latvia during the next planning period of the Common Agricultural Policy (2021-2027).

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Water management

Waterways lakes and rivers

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

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Catchment area renovation instead of separate actions

Category:

Reduction of nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflow into the Baltic

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