News » Develop Nutrient-balanced and "Low Nutrient Surplus" Agriculture in Baltic Basin

23.01.2018

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Nutrient pollution, which triggers Eutrophication, is the majorenvironmental problem of the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Agriculture is thesingle largest source of new nutrients to the Baltic Sea, vialeakage from farmland, contributing 50% of the total waterborne nitrogenand phosphorus inputs to the Baltic Sea basin. Baltic Sea regioncountries need to ?Close the loop of agricultural nutrients? toachieve a healthier Baltic Sea environmnet. Phosphorus is resource whichis running out. Actual resources will last for 50?100 years. Nutrientsin manure are often not used efficiently in crop production.

There is a potential to reduce nutrient losses by avoidingoverfertilization, improving manure management and replacing mineralfertilisers with manure. Nitrogen and Phosphorus are essential elementsfor plant?s growth and cannot be substituted. They are necessary forcrop production and life on planet Earth.

The full report published by the CCB is available at www.ccb.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/savenutrientsreport.pdf.

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Project Industrial animal farms in the Baltic Sea Region - sustainable practices to reduce nutrient loads is a part of a long-term campaign of the Coalition Clean Baltic and Green Federation "GAJA", aiming to reduce the negative impact of large-scale animal production on the environment and local communities in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly by reducing nutrient run-off into the sea. The project is part-financed by the European Union. This website reflects only the view of the Coalition Clean Baltic. The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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