EU Life Environment
Finding and demonstrating ways to better manage the land
 EU Life Environment
Czech Republic - Klapy
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Finding and Demonstrating Ways of Better Managing the Land
Welcome to the Czech republic Site Area

The czech site closed in 2007, however we invite you to read a bit about the host organisation that facilitated SOWAP in the Czech Republic.

The Research Institute of Crop Production in Prague was established in 1951. It is made up of four divisions each of which includes several departments. Activities of the division of Agroecology are focused on development of methods of determination and mapping of weed resistant to herbicides, development of integrated methods of weed control on arable land, on study of contributions and risks of long-term and area use of minimum and conservation soil tillage, on study of influence of fungal  fertilizers on yield and quality of spring barley grain and on looking for the most effective methods of utilization of energy crops for biofuel and bioethanol.

In division of  Genetics and  plant breedibg there is running National programe on conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources and several national and international projects focused on GMO research and on breeding for special chioce economically important characters especially of wheat.

Reseachers in division of Plant medicine work on a range of projects from the field of virology , f.e. reaction of resistant weed species to select viruses, research on the incidence of PPV strains in natural hosts and so on, on problems of molecular plant pathogen diagnostics, bacterial and fungi disease control in stands of field crops and orchards.

Division of Plant nutrition is the last one.  In 4 departments the problems of agrochemistry, plant nutrition physiology, soil biology and fertilization systems are studied

Last year RICP worked or co-operated on 15 international projects based on EU programmes or international agreements. 430 employees is the all staff of RICP and 150 persons are reseachers from that number.

Thank you for taking an interest in SOWAP in the Czech Republic

Miloslav Javurek - Country Manager

 
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