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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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Energy Positive Farm (ENPOS)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
Mechanized agriculture uses fertilizers made with fossile energy and consumes directly fossile energy in running the machinery and processes. Agriculture produces emissions both to air and water when using fossile energy. Agriculture has the possibility to give up partly or totally fossile energy usage. Besides that it has a possibilty to produce bioenergy for consumption and in this case the fa ...
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Functionality and ecological features of uninsulated dairy barns (ECOSTALL)
Start date: Mar 7, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The project investigates the impacts of cold cowsheds on animal welfare, labour working conditions, functionality and, nutrient losses. The objective is to gather and verify data of existing small and medium size Finnish and lager Estonian cold cowshed units, and use the information for planning of more cost-effective, more ecological and lager production units.
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