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Integrated Crop Management

Fields and Biotopes: Good Neighbors!

Modern agriculture ensures that sufficient food is available

Modern agriculture must produce high yields. This is also possible when intensely cultivated fields alternate with natural habitats in which countless animal and plant species thrive. Integrated Crop Management aims to reconcile the economic demands on agriculture with environmental protection. The coexistence of agricultural land and wildlife sanctuaries is also an important aspect of this principle.

Agriculture and species diversity are not contradictory concepts

In its projects on Integrated Crop Management and on Biodiversity, Bayer CropScience has shown that agriculture and species diversity are not contradictory concepts and can even benefit from each other. The company has implemented Integrated Crop Management on its two experimental farms in England since 2003. Part of each of the 25-hectare farms has been specifically reserved for non-agricultural use. This land provides space for hedges, orchards, wildflower meadows, fruit gardens, dikes and ponds – all excellent habitats for a variety of animal and plant species.

	Many fruit trees depend on pollination by flying pollen carriers like bees.

A new home for bullfinches and his friends

The arrangement has been fully accepted. In the meantime bullfinches, corn buntings, skylarks and other birds have nested in the hedges and trees. Brimstone butterflies lay their eggs, field mice enjoy the plentiful insect prey, and bees collect nectar from the wildflower meadows. These pollen collectors are a good example of the synergy between species diversity and agriculture. Those who offer bees food and a habitat also help commercial fruit growers, since many fruit trees depend on pollination by flying pollen carriers like bees.

British farmers frequently visit Bayer CropScience’s farms in England to gather useful tips on how they can improve biodiversity on their own farms.

Bayer CropScience has also gained experience with biodiversity projects in Brazil. Together with a citrus farmer, the company is working, for example, on a concept to try to stop the drying up of a waterway along the farm and the resulting erosion. Some 8,000 saplings of native species have been planted along the banks. The new vegetation has not only prevented the reduction of the water level, but also has attracted many birds and insects to the farmland, thus increasing the species diversity. Numerous farmers throughout the country have now followed this example.

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[ last update: Friday, June 6, 2008 ]