Marketing study of consumers preferences relating organic products was performed for the first time in Belarus. more…
0.47 (according to other sources 0.6) ha per each resident (0.9 ha of agricultural grounds) twice as many as in Germany, France, England. Totally, there are 9,011.5 thousand ha of agricultural lands, including 7,484.7 thousand ha (83.1 percent) with agricultural organizations, 62.8 thousand ha (0.7 percent), 130.5 thousand ha with peasant (farming) organizations (1.4 percent), facilitating estates of rural residents cover 880.7 thousand ha (9.8 percent). more…
The Belarusian NGO “Ecohome” by the middle of 90s began to popularize the permaculture in Belarus including the ecological design, agricultural and construction approaches and methods. The main aim is to create ecosystem constructed and functioning according to principals of natural ecosystems. The team of certified trainers has bee working in “Ecodom” which from 2000 conducts seminars in permaculture in the informal education system. The book “The Introduction to Permaculture” by Bill Mollison and the brochure “What is Permaculture?” were issued. In 2006, the public association “Women for Revival of the Naroch Region” (village Komarovo, Myadel district, Minsk region) began to carry out the project of “Development of Pollution-Free Agriculture in the “Naroch” National Park”. Within the project, it is planed to create the model of ecological farm on the area of 20 hectars, to create the model of transition to organic agriculture, to develop the methodological recommendations, and train the specialists in ecological agricultural field.
The leading science and education establishments in the field of organic agriculture in Belarus are Belarusian State Agricultural Academy and first of all Grodno State Agricultural University. There is a chair of entomology and biological plant protection in the University, and methodical recommendations “The Code of Ecological Agriculture” were developed, the students of the agricultural department are given a course “The Production of Pollution-Free Agricultural Products”, the students do practical work on ecological farms in Europe. There is an agricultural ecological department and the specialty “Ecology of Agriculture”, the magistracy is open for this specialty in Belarusian State Agricultural Academy. But the majority of scientific workings and publications are devoted to the intensive methods of the production of agricultural products. more…