László Radics

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László Radics (born August 22, 1949 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian agricultural scientist at the Corvinus University of Budapest . He is a specialist in organic farming research and a representative of Hungary in the European Herbologists Association.

Life

After attending school and completing specialist agricultural training in the state domain of Kiskunsag, he studied agricultural science at the Szent István University in Gödöllö . In 1977 he was awarded a Dr. sc. agr. did his doctorate and, in addition to the research assignment, also took on teaching tasks in soil cultivation, crop cultivation and weed control.

His research results in ecological weed control led to his appointment as visiting professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . After his habilitation in 1991, he was appointed professor of crop production and head of the institute for horticulture and organic farming at the Corvinus University in Budapest. As part of his research, he is networked with universities around the world, including the German universities of Bonn , Kassel and Hohenheim .

Memberships and engagements

  • Vice President of the European Society for Weed Research (EWRS).
  • Board member of the international association ECOLOGIA
  • Board member 2005–2014 at ISOFAR , the International Society for Research in Organic Agriculture
  • Board member of various Hungarian agricultural associations
  • Coordinator of the international FP6 project Channel
  • Coordinator of the Hungarian ecology project for organic production of poultry meat
  • Coordinator of the Hungarian project: Environmentally friendly production of organic tomatoes
  • Scientific coordinator of the FP7- EU project Legume Futures
  • Editor and editor of the multi-volume organic farming manual
  • Member of the international society for horticulture research
  • Member of the international FP7- EU project Biofector
  • Member of the editorial board: Journal of Agronomy and Alternative Crops
  • Project evaluator of the European Union

Research and publications

On the one hand, Radics stands in the research tradition of classical crop production, on the other hand, it tries to research current questions of food production under ecological guidelines. He is a much sought-after speaker at agricultural science congresses; Together with his colleagues, he has written 382 publications in the past years (1973–2013), is involved in the publication of 50 specialist books on organic crop production and is a scientific member of the international Biofector project .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the European Weed Research Society
  2. ↑ CORDIS database: Opening channels of communication between the associated candidate countries and the EU in ecological farming. Available at http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/84740_en.html
personal data
SURNAME Radics, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian agronomist at the Corvinus University Budapest
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest