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Operational Group Water protection Kruft (AKWA)

Authority

Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau

Federal State

Rhineland-Palatinate

Contact

Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Operational Group Water protection Kruft (AKWA)

Project description

The AKWA Project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of waterfriendly crop rotation and management measures with regard to groundwater protection in the study area. The transferability of the measures to other regions in Rhineland-Palatine will be assessed, resulting in recommendations for regions with high groundwater nitrate concentrations. An interdisciplinary team of agronomists and hydrogeologists will record soil properties that influence nitrate leaching. The impact of water-friendly cultivation methods on biodiversity will be monitored. The consequences of water-friendly cultivation for the profitability of arable farming will be documented, and recommendations for the determining the level of compensation for measure implementation will be elaborated. 

Key words

  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Plant nutrients
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity and nature
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

DLR Westerwald-Osteifel
Bahnhofstr. 32
56412 Montabaur

Phone: 02602 9228 11

Email: johannes.noll@dlr.rlp.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Climate/environment/nature organisation or agency
  • Civil servant

Begin of project

2021

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

640,000

NUTS3 CODE

DEB1B

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