The production of healthy, high-quality field crops using inexpensive and environmentally friendly methods – this is the aim of Agroscope’s research and development work in the Arable Production sphere.
Overview of the projects in the current Work Programme.
Plant Protection in Field Crops
Agroscope investigates ways to sustainably protect field crops from diseases, pests and weeds.
Agroscope contributes to sustainable production systems by researching soil tillage, soil cover and crop rotation.
Straw Cereals, Maize, Potatoes and Much More
Which varieties are suitable for Switzerland? Agroscope conducts variety tests and helps produce the Variety Lists.
We test the use of wood ash as a recycled fertiliser as well as the use of organic and synthetic chemical fertilisers.
The certification of cereals, grain legumes, maize and forage plants is one of the enforcement tasks performed by Agroscope.
Agroscope performs quality testing on over 6000 seed samples of over 200 different plant species annually.
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