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Local Community

  • 16.0. Local community
  • 16.1. Benefits for the local community from farming activities
  • 16.2. Voluntary initiatives supporting the life and functioning of local communities
  • 16.3. Lawful land use
  • 16.4. Land use and local community
  • What is sustainable agriculture?
    • Definition
    • List of major practices
    • Benefits of sustainable agriculture
    • Sustainable, organic and conventional agriculture
    • Sustainable livestock production
  • Common Agricultural Policy – financing
    • Common Agricultural Policy
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  • The Guide to Sustainable Agriculture
    • Farm Management
      • Benefits of good farm management
      • On-farm strategy
      • History of land use
      • Technical equipment versus the specificity of production
      • Professional consultation
      • Supply and sales markets
      • Education on production and management
      • Necessity of risk assessment for work stations
      • Planning farm activities
      • Risk for farm activities
      • Impact of farming activities on the surrounding and local community
      • Sustainable farm production
      • Soil and climate
      • Creation of soil fertility
      • Crop rotation and crop pattern changes
      • Animal welfare
      • Decision-support system
      • Inspections and repairs of mechanical equipment and machines
    • Sowing and Planting
      • Benefits of proper sowing and planting
      • Procurement of seed/planting material
      • Non-certified seed/planting material
      • Quality of seed/planting material
      • Agrotechnical terms
      • Optimising the selection of crops and their varieties
      • Selection of crop varieties and the sales market
      • Crop sequence
      • Optimum plant density
      • Genetically modified crops
      • Cultivation and presence of non-typical crops in the field
      • Invasive species for the territory of Poland
    • Soil Management
      • Usefulness of proper soil management
      • Soil fertility
      • Water
      • Soil minerals
      • Soil organic matter
      • Soil microorganisms
      • Soil macroorganisms
      • Mineral fertilisation
      • Soil pH value
      • Soil erosion
      • Tree clumps and shrubbery
    • Nutrient Management
      • Effective nutrient management
      • Soil analysis for macro- and microelements, organic content and pH
      • Soil pH regulation
      • Determining the levels of mineral fertilisation
      • Fertilising balance
      • Characteristics of mineral fertilisers and their availability for crops
      • Foliar fertilisation
      • Precision fertilisation
      • Origins of fertilisers
      • Animal organic fertilisers
      • Application of animal fertilisers
      • Other organic fertilisers
      • Warehousing and storage of organic fertilisers
      • Application of municipal raw sludge
      • Warehousing of mineral fertilisers
      • Method of fertiliser application
      • Analysis of water contamination risk, its impact on the surrounding areas and consumers
      • Professional consulting on fertilisation
    • Crop Protection
      • Crop protection means secure yields
      • Integrated Crop Protection
      • Sources of crop infection
      • Economic damage thresholds for agrophages
      • Agrophage control
      • Decision-support systems in crop protection
      • Reduced efficiency of crop protection products and formation of agrophage resistance
      • Use of crop protection products from different chemical groups
      • Biodiversity protection in and around chemically protected areas
      • Documenting the legitimacy of crop protection procedures
      • Location and documentation of crop protection product purchases
      • Transportation rules for crop protection products
      • Storage rules for crop protection products
      • Crop protection products authorised for use
      • Illegal crop protection products
      • Fertilisers or growth promoters as informal crop protection products
      • Proper use of crop protection products
      • Performance of the protection procedure
      • Residues of crop protection products in agricultural produce
      • Personal protection equipment and emergency events
      • Buffer zones
      • Protection against local contaminants
      • Handling of empty crop protection product packaging and containers
    • Water Management
      • Crop-enhancing water management
      • Water retention in an agricultural landscape
      • Sources of irrigation water
      • Water permit
      • Irrigation water – potential threats
      • Quality of irrigation waters
      • Actual water demand of crops depending on the stage of development, practical water needs of crops
      • Optimisation of water use
      • Choice of an irrigation system and its activation time
      • Rainwater use
      • Water treatment
      • Water accumulation in the soil depending on the type of soil profile
      • Evaporation from soil and plants
      • Water in frozen or inundated soil
      • Areas of the farm under the threat of surface run-off
      • Prevention of surface runoff
      • Green (grass-covered) preventing surface runoff
      • Household (farmstead) sewage
      • Management of water contaminated with crop protection products, fuel and fertilisers
    • Biodiversity
      • Living abundance of the environment
      • Importance of biodiversity for the functioning of agricultural production
      • Relationships between integrated crop protection and biodiversity
      • Protection zones (e.g. Natura 2000) as well as protected areas and their buffer zones
      • Animal and plant habitats
      • Restoration of former and creation of new breeding/living sites for birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other invertebrates
      • Resignation from using valuable lands for beneficial organisms
      • Lawfulness of agricultural wasteland elimination and activities for biodiversity
      • Biodiversity monitoring on a farm
      • Positive and negative effects of the presence of identified animals and plants
      • Professional consulting on environmental protection and biodiversity
      • Maintenance/improvement of biodiversity
      • Chemicalisation of agriculture versus biodiversity protection (e.g. pollinators, aquatic organisms, birds)
    • Local Community
      • Local community
      • Benefits for the local community from farming activities
      • Voluntary initiatives supporting the life and functioning of local communities
      • Lawful land use
      • Land use and local community

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