Demonstration Farms and Agricultural Advisory Service in Poland

Content

Summary

Introduction

Organization of the project

Demonstration areas

Activities and results

Suggestions for the future

Members of the expert team and other persons associated to the project

Summary (to top)

The project in Poland was started in July 1994 in two Polish provinces, Elblag and Torun. It entailed co-operation between Polish and Swedish research and advisory organizations over a period of three years.

FULFILLMENT OF OBJECTIVES

The overall objective to reduce the leaching of nitrate and phosphorous was not expected to be achieved within the three-year project period but if the methods are used on a wider scale they will give a result in the long term.
As a result of the project there are experts in six provinces in northern Poland trained in methods for reducing the leaching of nutrients. Politicians, administrators on all levels, teachers of agricultural schools and students have participated in study tours and workshops. The objectives of the training have been met, probably beyond expectation.
There was little emphasis on the legislation process. However it is probably relevant to say that the ideas behind the project have had some influence on the current discussion with regard to legislation on a national level, since the project personnel have been very active in national environmental activities. The project had (and still has) very good co-operation with the provincial administration of Torun, one of the most important agricultural areas in the country.
Storage facilities were built on six of the eight farms. It is likely that as a result of the project, storage facilities will be built in the project areas, but probably not within the forthcoming 8 -10 months unless government subsidies are made available. The number of visitors to the demonstration farms and the demonstration trials have exceeded expectations.
The results of soil and water testing at farm level are currently used for training purposes, and thereby, as intended, serve to demonstrate the impact of improper storage of manure. The monitoring programme for the small river Struga Ciechocinska must run for several years before being evaluated, but there is a good chance that it will be continued in the province of Torun.
Replacing fertiliser with manure was a new idea. The demonstration trials were fewer than planned. However, the message was spread after some initial resistance. The development of an advisory system was the main objective in the area of information extension. It was met with a positive response.

OTHER EFFECTS OF IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES

Contacts have been established between the agricultural organizations in northern Poland and Skine. For example, after the conclusion of the project, meetings were held between the newly formed Polish Chamber of Agriculture and Skine County Agricultural Society (Hushallningssallskapet) which may be of interest in the future.

CONCLUSIONS

The concept of the project is sound and it should be spread to other provinces with good agricultural potential. The most important result is that the awareness of the risks of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of both the local drinking water and the sea has been highlighted, as have the actions which can be taken to minimise the risks. Future projects should place the emphasis on advisory services, trials and training. Actual examples of construction units are needed. With regard to Polish agriculture, the main issue now is that of how to become a competitive force within the European common market. The time is now right to introduce good management practices in order to balance the intensification of the agricultural production in Poland.

Introduction (to top)

The Baltic Agricultural Run-off Action Program (BAAP) in Poland had a total budget of 3 million SEK and originated in the Helsinki Commission in 1992. The Agricultural Run-off action programme in Poland was started in July 1994.
The Swedish commissioner is HushOningss0skapet Malmahus, Sweden. The Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming, (IMUZ) at Falenty, Poland, is responsible for the coordinating participating Polish organizations.
There is a need for considerable development in order to create economically and environmentally sound farms and good conditions in all aspects of living in the Polish countryside but there is also a general awareness of the necessity to improve the situation. In most of the Polish provinces private farms dominated also during the communist time and the transition to market economy is easier in these areas. The Polish farms over a certain size are developing in the direction of higher productivity but certainly the small farms are facing big difficulties. This project has mainly focused on private farms judged to be competitive in the long term. The environmental problems are obvious to the Polish farmers primarily because the water from the farm wells is very often not suitable for drinking due to contamination by nitrate.

Organization of the project (to top)

The project was a close co-operation between Swedish an Polish experts. Most of the work in Poland has been carried out by the Polish experts from organizations on national, provincial and community level. The Swedish experts have participated in the planning of the activities, suggested methods of sampling and analysis and participated in training of both scientific personnel and advisors in different techniques and topics. A list of addresses is found in Appendix 1.

PROJECT LEADER

The Agricultural Society of Malmohus
The Agricultural Society of Malmohus is a regional independent members organization in south west Skane, the former province of Malmohus. The area of work in Skane consist of field trials, advisory work and regional veterinary clinics. The organization has been the commissioner to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and responsible for the overall planning and administration of the project. It has also provided expertise in the field of crop production and organization of advisory work.
Much time was spent on initial organization discussions before the work was started in Poland. Currently, there is a well working group of trained experts and advisors who are ready to continue and spread the work.

OVERALL CO-ORDINATION IN POLAND

IMUZ

The Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming (IMUZ) is a research organization under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy with the head office at Falenty near Warsaw. IMUZ is oriented towards water management and environmental problems of agriculture. There are similar institutes in different parts of the country, each specialized in a specific field of agriculture such as fertilization of crops, plant protection or animal husbandry.
The national office at Falenty was responsible for the contracting and co-ordination of the Polish experts, ammonia measurements, sampling and chemical analysis, training seminars and field days on national level.

EXPERT TEAM

ODR

The Osrodek Doradztwa Roiniczego (ODR), which is the Agricultural Extension Service Centre is under the provincial branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy. ODR covers all aspects of agriculture including production technology, marketing and household.
The provincial head offices provide expertise to the regional advisors who are working directly with the farmers. Conference facilities and lodging are available at the provincial headquarters of ODR, often for as many as 100 persons.
The Extension Service (ODR) in Stare Pole, province of Elblag, participated as experts and farm advisors in the project activities in the province or Elblag.
The Extension Service (ODR) in Przysiek, province of Torun, participated in the project not only as experts but was responsible for advisory activities, field days and construction of storage facilities in the province of Torun.

The Zulawy Development Bureau

The Zulawy Development Bureau is a co-operation between the Netherlands and the provincial administration of Elblag and the neighboring provinces. The task is the reconstruction of infrastructure and agriculture in the Zulawy, a region between the cities of Gdansk and Elblag. Initially, the Zulawy Development Bureau was responsible for both the advisory work and the constructions in the project in Elblag.

IMUZ at Elblag and Bvdffoszcz

The regional office of IMUZ at Elblag was responsible for construction and advisory work on the demonstration farms in Elblag province. The regional office of IMUZ at Bydgoscsz supported ODR Przysiek in advisory work and soil and water testing.

The Swedish University of agricultural Sciences (SLU)

SLU provided expertise in storage facilities for farm yard manure, urine, slurry and silage and assessed that the constructions on the demonstration farms corresponded as near as possible with Swedish standards and recommendations.

The Agricultural Society of Kristianstad

The Agricultural Society of Kristianstad is a regional independent member organization in the former province of Kristianstad in the north east of Skane. The main area of work is agricultural field trials and advisory work. In the project it provided expertise in the field of animal husbandry and ley/grassland management.

The Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL)

The Swedish Environmental Research Institute is an independent research organization financed by the Swedish Ministry of Environment and the Swedish industry.

The Stockholm branch provided expertise in monitoring and chemical analysis. The Gothenburg branch was responsible for transferring the new technique of ammonia measurements to the Polish scientists.

ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT

The Provincial Inspectorate of environmental Protection, Torun

The Inspectorate carried out monitoring of the river Struga Ciechocifiska which drains the area of the demonstration farms into the river Drweca and then into Wisla. The monitoring started in 1995 as a contribution of the provincial government of Torun to the project and will probably be continued after the project has ended.

The Regional Fund for Environmental protection, Torun

The fund has financed and constructed household treatment facilities on some demonstration farms.

The community (gmina) of Chiechocin, Torun .

The community administration has participated in the arrangement of several field days and seminars in the project in the Torun province.

Demonstration areas (to top)

The demonstration farms are located in the two provinces Elblag and Torun. These are intensive agricultural areas with a very good potential for future development and competitiveness of the agriculture on a European level. The provinces are however in different stages of development in the transition from centrally planned to market economy and have also rather different natural conditions.
The use of commercial fertilizer and animal density have decreased in the demonstration areas as well as in the country as a whole during the transition period. The nutrient balance is, however, very low which shows that the utilization of applied nitrogen and phosphorous including the content in manure and fodder is low compared to Swedish conditions. Some key figures are shown in table 1.

TABLE 1. Average use of fertiliser, nitrogen and phosphorous balance in the demonstration areas.

Source: Own calculations based in information from "Participation of BAAP Project in Abating the Water Pollution in Gmina Ciechocin", "Proceedings of Conference" by A. Sapek., Przysiek, 1997.

Elblag

The demonstration farms in Elblag are situated in the Zulawy, an area partly below the sea level. It is mainly arable land, divided into polders drained by an old network of channels. The alluvial soils are very fertile, mainly clay and silt with patches of muck peat.
During the communist time around 50% of the land belonged to state farms (PGR) but most of this land has now been sold to private farmers. The area has not reached the potential productivity in the field of agriculture. The average farm area is today about 12 - 15 hectares.
The main production is milk and grain, mainly winter crops. Permanent leys cover 2,5 % of the farm land. Most farmers have a mixed production of dairy cows and commercial crops. The average animal density in Zulawy decreased during the transition period from around 60 cows per 100 hectares but is slowly rising again. The recommendation to the farmers is to plan the farm investments for around 30 cows/100 hectares considering a certain increase in milk production from today's 4,000 kg milk/year. Slurry is practically non-existent, farm yard manure is stored on the ground and very few farms have storage facilities for the animal urine. Nearly all farms in the region have municipal water but other infrastructure is poor. Telephones do not exist in the rural areas and the roads are in a bad condition. There is a general awareness of the necessity to improve the situation including the environmental conditions, particularly the local drinking water quality.
It was a considerable problem during the project that most of the demonstration farmers had no definite ideas of the future size and composition of their animal herds and there were a lot of changes regarding the size and type as well as the placing of the manure and silage stores during the project time.

Torun

The demonstration farms are situated in the community (gmina) of Ciechocin, within the watershed of the river Drweca which drains into the river Struga Ciechocinska and thereafter in Wisla. There are good natural conditions in the province and agriculture in the form of private farms has traditionally been and still is the main industry. The soils are weathered, mainly sandy-foamy soils. The depth of the soils can be as much as several hundred meters. The landscape is undulating and the rivers create ravines and cause problems with soil erosion. The groundwater level is normally around 10 m below the surface.

The average size of a farm is 10 hectares, most farmers have mixed production of dairy cows, pigs and crops. Grain dominates the crop production but most farms also grow potatoes and sugar beets. The animal density is around 40 cows/100 ha and 20 pigs/100 ha, the average milk production is 2,900 kg/year.
Some farms - in the community of Chiechocin nearly all farms - have municipal water. The environmental problems have been given great attention by the local authorities. Single household sewage treatment plants are being subsidized by the community on many farms and communal sewage treatment plants are under construction. The infrastructure is good although telephones hardly exist in the rural areas.

Activities and results (to top)

CONSTRUCTIONS ON THE DEMONSTRATION FARMS

The main interest of manure handling in the two project areas has been solid manure systems. Hardly any farm has a slurry system. This is due to tradition, higher investment costs for a slurry system and legal restrictions for slurry handling. For the first time a government regulation has been suggested for manure and urine storage capacity, spreading times and required area of farm land for animal production. There is no current regulation in this field.

The main objectives of this part of the project were:

Constructions on demonstration farms should serve as "prototypes" of the constructions at other farms. The restrictions concerning maximum allowed animal densities were based on Swedish recommendations. Eight months storage capacity was required for dairy cows and ten moths for pigs. The silage juice should be collected. When designing buildings and manure/urine storage facilities in the Elblag area the relatively high ground water table in the area must be considered.
On some of the farms other demonstration constructions were built as a Polish contribution to the project, for example waste water treatment plants and in some case manure or urine tanks which could not be covered by the project. The source of finance was the Fund for Environmental Protection in Torun. The construction on the demonstration farms are shown in table 2.

TABLE 2. Constructions on the demonstration farms.

TESTING OF SOIL AND WATER ON FARM LEVEL

The water quality was tested on the demonstration farms in order to establish the pollution from manure storage and other sources. Three permanent sampling points were used on each farm and samples were taken once a month. The points were:

Sampling started in September 1995 in Elblag and in March 1997 in Torun. Soil samples were taken in 20 cm layers of the profile near the water sampling points.

The assessment of soil and water quality was also a form of farmer education. The farmer was participating in the investigations on his farm which enabled him to understand the impact of the farm activity on environment and the importance of improved practices. The results from measurements on the demonstration farms are used as educational materials for training on different levels also after the project.
Naturally the highest nutrients concentrations were found in ground water samples sampled from control wells near the manure storage area on the farmstead. A serious water pollution nitrate and phosphorous was also observed in old wells no more used for drinking water. The concentration of N-NO 3 ranged from 7.6 to 34.7 mg N/dm3, and phosphorus from 0.049 to 0.89 mg P/dm3. The Polish standard for drinking water is maximum 10 mg/dm3 nitrate. It was demonstrated that the permanent grassland along the streams is an efficient trap to surplus of soil nitrate and protects the stream from pollution.
Generally the conclusion of the measurements on the farms is that the farm wells can not be used for drinking water due to high nitrate concentration which in turn is due to improper manure storage.

MONITORING OF THE RIVER STRUGA CECHOCINSKA

The local Laboratory for Environmental Protection in Torun monitored the small river Struga Ciechocinska, in which basin the demonstration farms are located by monthly sampling at five points. The monitoring started in January 1995 and will be continued. All relevant parameters including flow (ml/s) are measured.

The results of monitoring of Struga Ciechocinska showed that the water was relatively clean and was polluted with nitrate only in few cases. The concentration of phosphorus was, however, high. The results are presented in table 3.

TABLE 3. Concentration of nitrate nitrogen, total nitrogen and total phosphorous in the river Struga Ciechocinska.

AMMONIA EMISSION MEASUREMENTS

The Swedish method for ammonia measurement developed by Dr Martin Ferm was introduced and tested by the Polish specialists in 1996 and 1997. The main purpose at this initial stage was to demonstrate to the advisors, and to a certain extent also to farmers, that nitrogen losses from manure storage exist. The technique of ammonia measurements is rather new also in Sweden.
The preliminary study of ammonia emissions from manure storage places in farms in Elblag province showed that, depending on condition the emission was between 130 and 978 g of NH3 per 24 hours. This could be approximated to an emission of 50 to 360 kg ammonia per year.
Torun together with Leszczyn provinces has the highest animal density in the country and can therefore be expected to have a degree of ammonia emission estimated to around 35 - 40 kg/ha. The animal density in Elblag decreased with the fall of the agricultural co-operatives and ammonia emission has been estimated to around 10 - 20 kg/ha (A. Sapek 1997)

ADVISORY SERVICE

The advisory activities are listed in table 4. The general idea to work through the existing advisory organizations was a successful approach. The objective of the advisory part of the project was of course to spread knowledge to the farmers but also to develop the advisory system.

The individual advisory program

The intention was that the organizations responsible for advisory work (ODR in Torun and IMUZ together with the Zulawy Development Bureau in Elblag) should initiate an individual advisory programme for the demonstration farmers including:

Simultaneously the ideas from the project should be used in the general advisory programme.
The advisors and demonstration farmers visited Sweden and studied all aspects of animal and crop production including feeding, ley and fodder production, manure storage and spreading technique. The programme also included visits to an agricultural laboratory, agricultural research centers, ecological farms and additional farm enterprises. The study tours were much appreciated and created a common work platform for the experts involved in the project.
Basically the Swedish experience from individual advisory work was implemented. Eventually and as a whole there was a good response to this way of working with individual farmers but it took quite a lot of discussions and visits. The individual advisory work requires more or less constant contact and discussion between the advisor and the farmer and it is important that the theoretical competence and the practical agricultural experience have equal status in the discussions. To some extent Swedish information material concerning crop planning, manure handling and fodder production was translated and used in the advisory work but mainly Polish material was used. A Danish computerized program for crop planning was introduced in Torun.

The general advisory programme

The general advisory programme was carried out as field days for field advisors often at community (gmina) level and farmers. Both the advisors and the farmers were enthusiastic about the field days and it was quite obvious to all involved that a lot of discussion among farmers was initiated during these occasions. There was however a tendency that the advisors would squeeze in too many subjects on one field day; crop fertilization, plant protection, animal feeding, hay making, manure handling etc. It would probably have been better to concentrate on a few subjects each time. The activities are reported in table 8 under the training activities.

Demonstration trials

The objectives of the trials were demonstration of:

The demonstration trials on the farms were planned jointly buy the Swedish and Polish advisors and the work was carried out by the farmers. The choice was to make demonstration trials rather than scientific trials in order to make efficient use of the funds available. However as the project was going it became clear that there is also a need for scientific trials in the area of environmental aspects of agriculture as well as a need to improve the communication of results of trials carried out by different organizations in different parts of the country. There are and have been a lot of field trials in Poland for testing new varieties, mineral fertilizers and pesticides but not much has been done with manure. The normal spreading time of manure in Poland is in the autumn and manure is very much regarded as a useless waste product.

The demonstration trials were difficult to organize due to different opinions of the Swedish and Polish advisors concerning what should be demonstrated. There was a certain resistance towards the idea of replacing fertilizer with manure and these trials were realized only after a strong pressure from the Swedish side. However the possibility to make good use of manure and reduce the use of mineral fertilizer interested the farmers. The trials were visited by advisors from All over the country, by persons involved in different agricultural projects and by agricultural schools. Some demonstration trials were shown for up to 1 500 persons within one year.

TRAINING ACTIVITIES

The training was done for two levels; expert level and a more practical level. The training on expert level was intended for advisors, teachers, and persons from non-governmental organizations. The training on practical level was directed mainly towards farmers and field advisors but also to administrators especially on community level (gmina leaders). Some of the training occasions however had participants from all categories.
The objective of the training was to create an understanding for the environmental problems of agriculture among specialists and administrators and present practical solutions to farmers and advisors. By initiating a discussion among the former the project would contribute to the legislation process in Poland which has recently been initiated by the parliament.

Training of advisors, teachers and persons from non-governmental organizations

A special training programme was organized as a result of an agreement with the Ministry of Science, Education and Extension, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy and two other international projects dealing with agricultural environmental issues; Poland Agriculture and Water Quality Protection (PAWQP) and Environment- Agricultural Project Poland (EAPP) realized in Poland by The Iowa State University and The Danish Agricultural Advisory Center respectively. The training could thereby be extended to include the provinces Torufi, Elblag, Szczecin, Ostroleka, Koszalin and Bydgoszcz, all in the north of Poland. The training was mainly organized by IMUZ and most of the lectures were held by Polish experts. The Swedish experts participated in the planning and lecturing. Experts from Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania were invited to present certain topics.

Each training session was divided into three coursers. The tides and duration of the courses were:

Altogether there were three such training sessions during the project, all of nine days totally, held at ODR Sielinko in Stettin province. Altogether 96 persons from six provinces in northern Poland participated. The total number of participant days was 864.

Training of farmers, advisors and administrators

This training was done in co-operation with the communities (gminas), provincial governments of Torun and Elblag and non-governmental organizations and the programme was developed as the project was proceeding. The topics varied due to the interest of the actual group involved. The activities and participants are presented in table 5.

TABLE 5. Training organized in co-operation.

The seminars were perhaps more theoretical than oriented towards practical problems on the farm. On the other hand this is not easy since not so many advisors have started working with environmental aspects on farm level. For the same reason the seminars about manure handling were based very much on Swedish practical experience but nevertheless much appreciated by the participants. However this was an experience that needs to be discussed by similar projects in the future.

INFORMATION MATERIAL

Lectures from training, particularly Sielinko seminars, have been printed in an edition form of "Education Notebook", each in 1000 copies. The edition of notebooks was partly sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy. The copies were handed to the participants of training, to ODRs and to selected teachers in 300 Agricultural Secondary Schools and to some policy makers.

Four notebooks have been edited till now:

The methods of proper management systems in farm was propagated by means of brochures edited in interesting form and aimed to the farmers. Each brochure was printed in 1000 colored copies. Copies are handed to farmers through ODR advisers. The brochures were:

Advisory material like Forms for Crop Plans, Nutritional Balance on farm level and Farm Report Books were printed in Polish.

Suggestions for the future (to top)

Future projects should emphasize advisory service, trials and training more than constructions even if there is a need for some practical results to gather around for field days and seminar field trips. The control of the advisory and demonstration activities in the provinces including the construction of storage facilities could be more decentralized in order to give the local advisors more responsibility and speed up the communication. The training works very well with the current organization. It would also be possible to include other environmental aspects like the use of sewage sludge. Currently a sewage treatment plant is being built for the city of Torun and the Governor has expressed interest in the Swedish experience from the use of sludge on farm land.
Basically the concept of the project is a good one and it ought to be spread to other provinces with a good future potential for agriculture. It is obvious that for Polish agriculture the main issue at the moment is how to become competitive on the common European market. There is no doubt that this will mean generally more intensive production both of animals and crops in Poland. The time is right to introduce good agricultural management to balance this intensification.

MEMBERS OF THE EXPERT TEAM AND OTHER PERSONS ASSOCIATED TO THE PROJECT (to top)

IMUZ/Falenty

Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming

05-090 RASZYN POLAND
Telephone number: +48-22-756 05 31,
Telefax: +48-22-628 37 63

PROF. DR SC SAPEK, ANDRZEJ, Leader of Dept. of Soil and Water Chemistry, Polish coordinator of the BAAP-project. Speaks English, French and Russian.
SAPEK, BARBARA,Chemist, Water analyses, Speaks English, French and Russian.
MGR INZ PIETRZAK, STEFAN,Technical agronomist, Soil water sampling.

 

IMUZ/Bydgoszcz

Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming Regional Division in Bydgoszcz,

12 Ossolinskich Str
85-093 Bydgoszcz
Telephone and telefax: 52-2-2 56 82
Telephone and telefax between 7:3o am and 3:30 Pm

DR INZ. MIATKOWSKI, ZYGMUNT,Water specialist, Water monitoring: Program discussions, quality securance, economical estimations. Speaks English.
PROF. DR. SC. CIESLINSKI, ZBIGNIEW, Leader of Regional Division, Water monitoring. Speaks German.
 
IMUZ/Elblag

Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming ul. GiermkOw 5 82-3oo Elblag

Telephone and telefax number: 55-32 44 08
Telephone and telefax between 7:3o am and 3:30 Pm

AUGUSTYNIAK, MIECZYSLAW,Hydrotechnican, Water monitoring (equipment)
DR. MARCINKOWSKI, TADEUSZ,Chemist, Water monitoring: Dry and wet deposition, Quality securance, Sampling techniques. Ammonia losses.
SZWEDA, STANISLAW, Plant production agronomist, Water monitoring: Programme discussions, installation of wells, sampling, quality securance etc. Demonstration trials, plant production plans. Speaks German.
MGR INZ TERLIKOWSKA, KRYSTYNA, Plant production agronomist, Water monitoring: Program discussions, quality securance, sampling techniques, economical estimation. Contact and coordinator in the Elblag region, speaks English.

 

ODR/Przysiek

Agricultural Extension Service Center

Przysiek
87-134 Ziawies Wielka
Telephone numbers: +48 56-262 20, 272 55, 78 18 47.
Telefax. +48-56-274 13
Telephone and telefax between 7:oo am and 3:00 Pm

HORNOVSKI, ANDRZEJ, V Director, Co-ordinator in the Torun region.
PIETRZAK, ADAM, Plant production agronomist, Head advisor, Demonstration trials, plant production plans, investments. Contact, also practical arrangements.

 

ODR/Przysiek/Gmina Ciechocin and Golub-Dobrzyn

Gmina: Urzad Gminy w Ciechocinie,

87-408 Ciechocin
Telephone: +48 56-83 17 83, 83 17 81, Telefax: +48 56-83 17 24
Regional Office in Golub: Telephone: +48-56 83 26 09
Telephone and telefax between 7:00 am and 3:00 Pm

GORECKA, HELENA, Plant production agronomist, Local advisor. Local advisor for the farmers in the project in this region, plant production plans, feeding plans, single household treatment plants. She is at the office in Ciechocin on Tuesdays.
 
ODR/Stare Pole

ul. Marynarki Wojennej 21

82.-220 Stare Pole
Telephone: +48 55-71 35 21, 71 30 02, 73 10 40, 71 35 6o
Telefax: +48 55-71 35 62
Telephone and telefax between 7:00 am and 3:00 pm
Hotel ODR: address as above.
Telephone number: +48 55-71 30 99 (service 24h, only Polish spoken)

BUJALSKI, STANISLAW, Livestock agronomist. Feeding plans.
HUMIENSKI, MAREK, Agrochemist. Leader of laboratory dept. Analyses of fodder and manure (soil analyses).
 
ODR/Stare PolelElbiag

Telephone number: +48-55-32 64 96
Telephone and telefax between 7:00 am and 3:00 pm

MAGIALTO, JADWIGA, Livestock agronomist. Feeding plans.
STAMBROWSKI, ALFRED, Plant production agronomist. Local advisor for the farms in the project in this region.
 
Zulawy Development Bureau

15 Skrzydlata str

82-300 Elblag
Telephone and Telefax number: +48 55-33 60 73.

GURZYNSKI, DAREK, Project economist. General information, maps, economy and investments.
Mobile: +48 90 52 16 09.
 
Farmers
Elblag

BANACKI, JAN: Wikrowo, 82-331 Jeglownik
SIWON, ANDRZEJ: Ul Dluga 19, 82-331 Jeglownik, telephone +48 50-31 25 50
SKRZYPINSKI, TADEUSZ: Nogatowo, 82-331 Jeglownik
WIECZOREK, CEZARY: Gronowo
BONIECKI, WOJCIECII: Malszyce, 87-408 Ciechocin
GASIOROWSKI, KRZYSZTOF: Malszyce, 87-408 Ciechocin
GRZEBSKI, WLADISLAW: MiliszewY, 87-408 Ciechocin
KUKOWSKI, RYSZARD: MiliszewY, 87-408 Ciechocin
GUTMANSKI, WIESLAW: MiliszewY, 87-408 Ciechocin

 
Agricultural Society of Malmohus

Borgeby
S-237 91 Bjarred
Telephone: +46 46-71 36 21
Telefax: +46 46-70 61 35

ANNIKA HENRIKSSON, MSc Agr. Project leader.
ERIK STJERNDAHL, MSc Agr. Crop specialist. Field days, crop plans, plant nutrient recommendations, demonstration trials, soil analysis, manure analysis.

 

Agricultural Society of Kristianstad

P.O. Box 9084
S-291 09 Kristianstad
Telephone: +46 44-22 99 00

Telefax: +46 44-22 93 10

BIRGITTA GUNNARSSON, MSc Agr. Animal production specialist. Feed plans, demonstration trials, field days, manure handling, fodder analysis, fodder quality.
 
Swedish Environmental Researcb Institute

P.O. Box 21060
S-100 31 Stockholm
Telephone: +46-8-729 15 00

Telefax: +46-8-31 85 16

JONAS FEJES, chemist, water sampling and analysis, monitoring.
 
Swedisb Environmental -Researcb Institute

P.O. Box 47086
S-402 58 Goteborg
Telephone: +46-31-46 00 80

Telefax: +46 31-48 21 80

MARTIN FERM, chemist, ammonia emission specialist.
 
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Department of Agricultural Biosystems and Technology
P.O. Box 7032
S-750 07 Uppsala
Telephone: +46 18-67 18 38
Telefax: +46 18-67 28 01

CHRISTER NILSSON, Prof Agricultural building specialist, technical drawings, calculations, cost estimates.