After a two-year break due to COVID-19, the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMEL) will again make Hall 23a a showroom for its research, various activities and programs.

The Julius Kühn Institut (JKI) being one of the Ministry’s co-exhibitors in Hall 23a is demonstrating its activities for long-term monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Along with their project partners, JKI researchers are presenting the MonVia project, which is about monitoring  biodiversity - in particular wild weeds in fields, beneficial insects in orchards, organisms in small water bodies, or insect pests in sugar beet cultivations.

Other presentations focus on

• weed detection using artificial intelligence (BetterWeeds project),
• healthy vines in organic viticulture (VitiFit project) and
• investigation into the use of urease inhibitors in cattle farming (Prax-REDUCE).

You can obtain more information on the projects following these links:

• Vitifit: https://vitifit.de/en/
• Prax-REDUCE: https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00074635
• MonVia: https://www.agrarmonitoring-monvia.de/en/

Green Week website: https://www.gruenewoche.de/en/