How much carbon are we sequestering in the soil? How can we maximize nutrient recirculation and utilization? How do we promote life in the soil?
Experimental Platform for Agroecology in Hansbeke
The Experimental Platform for Agroecology in Hansbeke (PPAE Hansbeke) is a collaboration between ILVO, organic farmer Felix de Bousies (farm PHAE) and agricultural consultant and researcher Alain Peeters (RHEA). Together they generate and share expertise on the application of agroecological principles in practice.
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Research themes
Applying compost to the field is an important tool to improve overall soil quality.
A system of reduced tillage that respects the natural stratification of the soil fits into the agroecological approach of the trial platform.
Mixed cultures, new crops and old varieties are gaining importance in an agroecological cropping plan.
Agroecology aims to achieve sustainable circular livestock farming, a circular livestock farming form, in which fodder supply and manure disposal remain strongly soil-bound and as local as possible.
Agroforestry is an integrated land use management where trees or shrubs are combined with an agricultural crop or livestock on the same land.