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We invite you to a seminar on minimum tillage

2020.02.25. PA_Soil treatment technology program_LLKCLLKC invites you to a seminar on February 25th, entitled “Soil cultivation for environmentally friendly and efficient farming”. To till or not to till? The seminar is intended for farmers who want to farm sustainably and are therefore looking for ways to promote soil fertility by reducing tillage. This seminar will bring together scientists, consultants and farmers to share knowledge and experience on effective and sustainable soil cultivation technologies aimed at preserving and promoting soil fertility. With practical experience in minimum tillage (no-tillage, strip till, direct sowing) will be shared by the owners of the “Jaunozoli” agricultural cooperative, the “Rietumi” agricultural cooperative and SIA “Krastmaļi Sēklas”.

 

The seminar is being implemented as part of the project "Progressive farming system as a basis for environmentally friendly and efficient crop production in Latvia", and its lead partner is the Institute of Agroresources and Economics, which, together with cooperation partners (9 farms, farmers' cooperatives, LLKC and SIA "EDO CONSULT"), will conduct trials and evaluate economic and environmental solutions for different farming systems and soil cultivation technologies over a five-year period.

 

More about the project: http://new.llkc.lv/lv/nozares/augkopiba/istenos-progresivas-augkopibas-projektu

 

The seminar will take place on February 25, 2020 from 10:00-15:15 in the Great Hall of the Latvian Rural Consulting and Education Center, 2nd floor, Rīgas Street 34, Ozolnieki, LV-3018.

Seminar program. Participation in the seminar is free of charge.

Application: Maija Sirvide, Project Manager of the LLKC Projects and Development Department, e-mail: maija.sirvide@llkc.lv; tel. 29553548.

Photographs/filming will be taken during the seminar, and these materials may be used for publicity purposes.

The seminar is being implemented within the framework of the project "Progressive agricultural system as a basis for environmentally friendly and efficient crop production in Latvia" (No. 19-00-A01612-000011).