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Bioacademy 2002 - Expert Group 2: The Market of Organic Products, Its Development and Suitable Structure

Papers were delivered by Johann Ackerl, a member of the sales organization founded by Ökoland Vertriebs GmbH, an Austrian association of ecological farmers; Bernward Geier, the director of the IFOAM international organization; Tomáš Václavík, the representative of the Czech company Country Life; Karel Matěj, the sales manager of PRO-BIO Ltd.; Juliana Schloserová (ÚKSÚP Bratislava), who gave an account of the situation in Slovakia, Dirk Vollertsen, a representative of Bioland Markt GmbH Bayern, the Bavarian sales company, and Ruth Kratochvil of the BOKU agricultural university Vienna.

Expert Group 3: Biodiversity and Ecological Agriculture

The group discussed the potential of ecological agriculture to help protect and increase the variety of species, biotopes, ecological systems, etc. The relation between agriculture and the protection of environment was discussed, as well as the compensations offered by the common agricultural policy for being involved in the protection of landscape and environment.

Papers were delivered by Eva Keufer, the advisor of the Bioland association in the field of environment and protection of landscape; Gerhard Plackholm, a representative of the Federal Office of Agricultural Biology in Linz; Anna Michalová, who works at the Research Institute of Plant Production in Prague-Ruzyně and deals with the growing of less known crops and their nutritional value; Gabriele Obermayr, a representative of the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, who talked about the regional and national programmes of supporting biodiversity in agriculture; and Bořivoj Šarapatka, who works at the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc.

Field Trips to Ecological Enterprises

To prevent theory from dominating, the participants at the Bioacademy took field trips to conclude the Academy. The Moravian route included the White Carpathians, where Pavel Šeliga farms meat cattle and sheep on the area of nearly 300 hectares and thus maintains the landscape. The must factory in Hostětín produces excellent juice made from organic apples that come from old rustic orchards and are of local varieties, nowadays rare enough. The must tastes delicious and is one of the few organic drinks sold in the Czech Republic. The trip then continued to Mr. and Mrs. Hlaváč’s farm in Březí near Mikulov who grow organic beans, chickpeas, hard-grain wheat, potatoes and vegetables. The chickpea stew they offered to the visitors received enthusiastic praise from both the Czech and foreign ecological farmers.

At the Austrian route, the greatest attention was paid to the aforementioned project of the processing of organic products used in the catering at the Moorbad Harbach peat spa. The company concerned, of which half is owned by the local spa and the other half by local ecological farmers, runs several processing plants of organic produce, which then supply organic food to the spa. Another significant part of their organic production is supplied to hospitals and old people ’s homes in Vienna. The whole project includes about 3,5 thousand hectares of farmland.

 

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