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Four conferences on organic production and its environmental impact completed
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More than 700 people attended the four editions of our conference on eco-production, eco-food. - The lectures and demonstrations were intended for young people from agricultural secondary schools, students, farmers,...
More than 700 people attended the four editions of our conference on eco-production, eco-food.
- Lectures with demonstrations were intended for young people from agricultural secondary schools, students, farmers, counsellors, the Rural Women's Club and villagers.. I think it was a very good initiative. You can see that there's a lot of interest in organic farming here, and we need to talk about it and raise awareness about it, educate about it. “Dr. Ing summarized the meetings. Jolanta Puczel from the International Academy of Applied Sciences.
The aim of the conferences was to disseminate knowledge about organic products, which is still not easy but very much needed these days.
"I know farmers who achieve very high incomes, e.g. they manage 50 hectares of vegetables and are very happy. I also know farmers who produce very poorly – they were poor conventional farmers and are still weak organic farmers, also depends on the conditions, depending on the decision of the farmer, on his efforts to find a market, from his successes in production - explains Krzysztof Różyło from the University of Natural Sciences in Lublin, stress that if the farmer is not certified, he cannot use the prefix “Eko”, “organic” or “bio”. – These prefixes are reserved by EU law, Polish law, for organic farmers.
There has been a lot of interest in the concept of Allelopathy, which Dr hab translated. Bożena Łozowicka from the plant protection institute.
- Allelopathy is the interaction of plants with each other, and it's a phenomenon that can most certainly be used on a large scale in organic farming, because the idea of organic farming is not to use chemical, synthetic, self-help plant protection products. Plants contain many substances in their leaves, stems, flowers and roots and can thus compete with another plant if they want to destroy it or they can also improve the development of a neighbouring plant. It all depends on what kind of Allelopathy you have, we're talking about positive and negative here, and this is particularly applicable in organic farming, for example, weed eradication.
Topics related to the development of eco-production were moved within the walls of our university by means of the program "European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas".
