Projects

Organic vegetables: Enabling regional cultivation, creating jobs for people with disabilities, shaping processing, developing sales.

Authority

Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Hesse

Contact

Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Organic vegetables: Enabling regional cultivation, creating jobs for people with disabilities, shaping processing, developing sales.

Project description

The need for fresh organic vegetables in northern Hesse cannot be covered by regional cultivation. Various difficulties in terms of climate, farming practices, availability of seasonal labor, and processing structures complicate the integration of agricultural enterprises in this segment. The main objective of the project is to establish a regional value chain for organically grown fine vegetables, which is created through the cooperation of 3 partnership groups. An innovative approach of the project is to integrate the fine vegetable cultivation into the agricultural crop rotation. Typically, fine vegetables are grown in nurseries that are hardly established in northern Hesse. In order to serve the potential sales, various innovative concepts are developed and tested for their suitability for practical use. This includes labor organization, cultivation of site-adapted species, special counseling modules and job creation for people with disabilities. For the workshop workers of the Hephata Diakonie, the project enables a new meaningful activity and thus a further step of inclusion.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

The results are available as part of the final report and are available for download.

 

Key words

  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Supply chain, marketing and consumption

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

Treis Agrar Konzept
Binsförther Straße 26
34326 Morschen

Phone: 05664-930968

Email: Judith-treis@treis-agrarkonzept.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher
  • Industry

Begin of project

2018

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

268,400

Link 1

Practical fact sheet

NUTS3 CODE

DE735 Schwalm-Eder-Kreis

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