Integrated production

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Under Integrated Production (IP) is defined as a natural and animal-friendly farming .

classification

The Integrated agriculture forms a kind of bridge between the industrialized conventional agriculture , which is mainly focused on productivity, and ecological agriculture . Here, methods are preferably used that have the least possible impact on the environment, but without taking over all the restrictions from ecologically operated agriculture.

history

Their origin lies in integrated pest management . The Organización Internación Internacional de la Lucha Biológica e Integrada (International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control; OILB) defines integrated production as an agricultural system for food production that makes maximum use of natural resources and mechanisms and enables sustainable and sustainable agriculture in the long term. All the biological methods, cultivation techniques and chemical processes used are selected with a view to creating a balance between protecting the environment, economic efficiency and social needs.

aims

The main objectives can also be derived from this definition:

  • Integration of natural resources and regulatory mechanisms for the purpose of reducing external influences of all kinds (fertilizer, water, energy, etc.).
  • Ensuring the sustainable production of food and other products by preferably using technologies and products that are gentle on the environment and reduce contamination.
  • Maintaining the diverse functional processes in agriculture and the profitability of agricultural yields.

The main objective and the relevant guidelines have been largely determined by the OILB since the beginning of the 1970s, after certain practices of the producer groups were carried out in isolated, uncoordinated cases as early as the 1950s.

In 1977 the OILB - starting with the apple harvest - issued guidelines for the recognition of organizations that manufacture according to integrated production principles. However, it was not until the 1990s that OILB had drawn up specific guidelines, techniques, strategies and practices by means of corresponding agreements.

distribution

Since the late 1980s, large fruit-growing regions in Europe, including the Alte Land near Hamburg, have opened up to the integrated production of fruit. In the meantime, almost all of the pome fruit production in the main fruit-growing region, Baden-Württemberg, is marketed under the IP label.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, there is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Integrierter Obstanbau Rheinland-Pfalz eV (AGIO) in fruit growing and the Integrated Agriculture Working Group (AGIL) in arable farming. In 2006 the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture established the "Quality Mark of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate". Products that are labeled with this must meet the requirements of the highest trade and quality classes, can be proven to come from Rhineland-Palatinate and be produced in an environmentally friendly manner.

In Switzerland, the association of around 20,000 farmers who have joined Integrated Production is called IP-SUISSE .

criticism

The nature conservation association NABU points out, however, that integrated production, for example in fruit growing, has not led to an environmentally friendly approach. Despite the inflationary spread of the IP label, the use of pesticides in many fruit-growing areas has continued to rise.

It should also be noted here that "integrated cultivation", in contrast to "controlled organic cultivation", is not a legally protected term. (See also European organic regulation , organic seal for Germany )

See also

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  1. ↑ Information from the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forests Rhineland-Palatinate on the "Rhineland-Palatinate Quality Mark"
  2. ^ IP-SUISSE, the well-known organization in Switzerland