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Local Community

  • 16.0. Local community
  • 16.1. Benefits of the farm to the local community
  • 16.2. Voluntary initiatives to support the life and work of local communities
  • 16.3. Lawful use of land
  • 16.4. Land use and the local community
  • What is sustainable agriculture?
    • Definition
    • List of major practices
    • Benefits of sustainable agriculture
    • Sustainable livestock production
    • List of regenerative practices
    • Financial stability
    • Sustainable, organic and conventional agriculture
  • Common Agricultural Policy – financing
    • Common Agricultural Policy
    • European Green Deal
  • Sustainable Agriculture Guide
    • Rationale and instruments for making Europe’s economy sustainable
      • Rationale and instruments for rebalancing Europe’s economy
      • Sustainability of agriculture
      • Place of the farm in the sustainability of food production
    • Legal compliance
      • Legal compliance
      • Sources of legal expertise
      • Use of regulatory knowledge
      • Actions at farm level
    • Financial stability
      • What is financial stability?
      • Glossary
      • Reasons for loss of financial stability
      • Importance of business planning
      • Planning principles and most common mistakes
      • Agricultural risks
      • Knowledge and documentation to help achieve financial stability
      • Calculation of labour costs for family members
      • Documentation of fields, crops and treatments carried out on them
      • Documentation of the results obtained, their quantity and the quality of production
      • Documentation of production costs with external services
      • Improving the profitability of the farm and the use of advice in this respect
    • Farm Management
      • Benefits of good farm management
      • Farm strategy
      • History of land use
      • Technical equipment and the nature of production
      • Professional advice
      • Supply and sales markets
      • Production and management education
      • The need for a risk assessment for workplaces
      • Planning of farm activities
      • Risks to farm operations
      • Impact of the farm’s activities on the environment and the local community
      • Sustainable farm production
      • Soil and climate
      • Building soil fertility
      • Crop rotation
      • Animal welfare
      • Decision support systems
      • Inspection and repair of mechanical equipment
    • Sowing and Planting
      • Benefits of proper sowing and planting
      • Supply of seed/planting stock
      • Uncertified material for sowing/planting
      • Quality of seed/planting stock
      • Agrotechnical deadlines
      • Optimising the selection of crops and their varieties
      • Selection of plant varieties and market outlets
      • Plant succession
      • Optimum plant density
      • Genetically modified plants
      • Growing or presence of atypical plants
      • Invasive species for Poland
    • Soil Management
      • Practicality of proper soil management
      • Soil fertility
      • Water
      • Soil minerals
      • Soil organic matter
      • Soil microorganisms
      • Soil macro-organisms
      • Mineral fertilisation
      • Soil pH
      • Soil erosion
      • Tree and shrub planting
    • Nutrient Management
      • Effective nutrient management
      • Testing of soil for macro- and micronutrient content, organic matter content and pH
      • Regulation of soil pH
      • Determination of mineral fertilisation rates
      • Fertiliser balance
      • Characteristics of mineral fertilisers and their availability to plants
      • Foliar fertilisation
      • Precision fertilisation
      • Sources of fertilisers
      • Organic fertilisers of animal origin
      • Use of zoonotic fertilisers
      • Other organic fertilisers
      • Storage and disposal of organic fertilisers
      • Use of municipal sewage sludge
      • Mineral fertiliser storage
      • Application of fertilisers
      • Analysis of the risk of water pollution, impact on the environment and consumers
      • Professional fertiliser advice
    • Plant protection
      • Crop protection means secure yields
      • Integrated Plant Protection
      • Fertilisers or growth promoters that are informal plant protection products
      • Proper use of plant protection products
      • Implementation of the protection measure
      • Sources of crop infection
      • Thresholds of the economic harmfulness of pests
      • Agrophage control
      • Decision-support systems in plant protection
      • Reduced effectiveness of plant protection products and development of resistance in agrophages
      • Use of APCs from different chemical groups
      • Protection of biodiversity in and around chemically protected areas
      • Documentation of the rationale for plant protection measures
      • Approved PPPs
      • PPPs prohibited by law
      • Location and documentation of the purchase of PPPs
      • Rules for transporting PPPs
      • Rules for storing PPPs
      • Location of the PPP warehouse
      • Construction of the PPP warehouse
      • Equipment of the PPP warehouse
      • Security of the PPP warehouse
      • Personal protective equipment and emergencies
      • Buffer zones
      • Protection against local contamination
      • Dealing with empty PPP containers
      • Residues of PPPs in agricultural products
    • Agricultural chemicals and waste management
      • Training on the prevention of hazardous events
      • Chemicalisation of agriculture
      • Risk assessment for workplaces
      • Personal protective equipment
      • Professional advice on the safe use of PPPs
      • Checking the efficiency of the field sprayer
      • Periodic inspection of chemical treatment equipment
      • Calibration of chemical treatment equipment
      • Contact with plant protection products – Hazards and necessary measures
      • Operation and calibration of the fertiliser spreader
      • Risks associated with using fertilisers
      • Procedures in case of hazardous incidents with fertilisers
      • Securing equipment after the season
      • Fuel storage facility – organisation and signage
      • Leaking fuel storage, fuel-contaminated soil, ‘burnt’ oil, used lubricants, filters, hoses, etc.
      • Waste generated on the farm
      • Limiting the production of agricultural waste and washings
      • Waste suitable for recycling and use in agricultural production
      • Agricultural waste not suitable for re-use in agricultural
      • Organic fertilisers arising from the production process
      • Hazards associated with waste from agricultural chemicals
      • Handling packaging of mineral fertilisers and other agricultural inputs
      • Handling residues, water contaminated with PPPs, expired products, clothing contaminated with PPPs, lubricants, fuel and fertilisers
      • Handling residues, water contaminated with PPPs, expired products, clothing contaminated with PPPs, lubricants, fuel and fertilisers
      • Hazardous waste warehouse
      • Risk assessment for the waste warehouse
      • Units for the disposal of hazardous waste
      • Incineration of waste
    • Water Management
      • Yield-forming water management
      • Water retention in an agricultural landscape
      • Water sources for irrigation
      • Water permit
      • Irrigation water – potential risks
      • Quality of irrigation water
      • Actual crop water requirements depending on development stage, practical crop water needs
      • Optimisation of water consumption
      • Choice of irrigation system and time of activation
      • Rainwater utilisation
      • Water treatment
      • Water accumulation in the soil depending on the type of soil profile
      • Evaporation from soil and plants
      • Water in frozen or flooded soil
      • Areas of the farm at risk of surface run-off
      • Prevention of surface run-off
      • Greening zones (grassed) to prevent surface run-off
      • Waste water on the farm
      • Management of water contaminated with plant protection products, fuel and fertilisers
    • Biodiversity
      • Rich living environment
      • The importance of biodiversity for the functioning of agricultural production
      • Links between integrated pest management and biodiversity
      • Conservation zones (e.g. Natura 2000) and protected areas and their buffer zones
      • Animal and plant habitats
      • Restoration of former and creation of new nesting/habitat sites for birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other invertebrates
      • Abandonment of land of value for beneficial organisms
      • Legality of wasteland decommissioning and biodiversity measures
      • On-farm biodiversity monitoring
      • Positive and negative effects of the presence of identified animals and plants
      • Professional environmental and biodiversity advice
      • Maintaining / improving biodiversity
      • Chemicalisation of agriculture and the protection of biodiversity (e.g. pollinators, aquatic organisms, birds)
    • Air and greenhouse gas emissions
      • Air and greenhouse gas emissions
      • Air pollution caused by agricultural activities
      • Energy consumption for agricultural production
      • Reducing carbon dioxide production from fuels
      • Machine aggregation
      • Soil movement
      • Renewable energy
      • Sites of formation of harmful gases H2S, NH3, SO2 and greenhouse gases CO2, CH4, NOx
      • Monitoring and recording of greenhouse gases on the farm
      • Emissions of nitrogen compounds due to improper storage of organic fertilisers
      • Air purification from livestock buildings
      • Optimising the use of energy-intensive products, e.g. nitrogen fertilisers
      • Ploughing in of livestock manures and top dressing of liquid organic fertilisers
      • Increase in soil bound carbon content
      • Air pollution from agricultural chemicals
      • Air dustiness
    • Market access
      • Market access
      • Farm budget planning based on market knowledge
      • Integration of agricultural risk into production planning
      • Crop quality and production value
      • Production and storage procedures for crops
      • Means of production and agreeing production procedures with the recipient of the products
      • Responsibility for the quality and safety of the food produced
      • Farm production safety (biological, chemical, physical contamination)
      • Critical points for food safety and quality
      • Training of employees to ensure quality production
      • Documentation of farm operations and input purchases
      • Batch production process
      • Production certification
      • Organisation of product sales
      • Negotiation and communication competence
    • Working conditions
      • Labour laws and regulations concerning employee organisations
      • Determination of employees’ working and pay conditions
      • Employee compensation
      • Employment of young people
      • Administrative penalties
      • Prevention of discrimination
      • Prevention of mobbing
      • Individual needs and limitations of employees
      • Work-related health issues
      • Health insurance
      • Employee education
      • Employee communication
      • Employment of foreigners
      • Motivating employees
      • Records of disciplinary penalties
    • Health and safety
      • Occupational health and safety
      • Application of labour legislation
      • Risk assessment for individual workplaces
      • Procedures to deal with adverse events
      • Handling of accidents
      • Employee health and safety training
      • Periodic occupational health examinations
      • Release to work
      • Pre-work training
      • Signs warning workers of hazards
      • Working at heights
      • Optimising production processes to reduce employee exposure to accidents
      • First-aid kit
      • First-aid training
      • Fire-fighting equipment
      • Telephone numbers for emergency services
      • Eye washing equipment
      • Work and protective clothing and equipment
      • Disease prevention
      • Personal hygiene, preventive vaccinations and health programmes
      • Residence of workers on the farm
    • Local Community
      • Local community
      • Benefits of the farm to the local community
      • Voluntary initiatives to support the life and work of local communities
      • Lawful use of land
      • Land use and the local community
    • Animal production
      • Animal production
      • Animal welfare
      • The consumer vs. animal welfare
      • Elements of well-being and the “List of Five Freedoms”
      • Indicators for assessing animal welfare
      • Welfare Quality®
      • Welfare of poultry
      • Welfare of pigs
      • Welfare of cattle
      • Bio-security in animal husbandry
      • Bio-assurance tasks
      • Location of the farm
      • Technology and personnel hygiene
      • Staff hygiene and control of farm visits
      • Quarantine
      • Control of unwanted animals
      • Black and white system security
      • Good practices related to bio-security rules:
      • Key factors limiting the effectiveness of bio-security programmes
      • Treatment of animals
      • Principles of antibiotic use in animal husbandry
      • Effect of antibiotics
      • Problems and risks associated with the use of antibiotics
      • Veterinary medicines and principles of their use in the treatment of livestock
      • The food chain
      • Prevention of antibiotic resistance
      • Types of antibiotic resistance
      • Causes and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
      • Effects of antibiotic resistance
      • Antibiotic therapy in agriculture
      • Principles of antibiotic therapy in animal production
      • Monitoring antibiotic consumption
      • Good practices – reducing the use of antibiotics
    • Summary

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