- Integrated Crop Production is an eco-scheme for the implementation of which a farmer can receive approximately PLN 1,300 per hectare of production.
- The basic conditions for participation in this system are completing appropriate training and then submitting a crop report to the certifying entity.
- The notification must be made at least 30 days before sowing. In the case of winter crops, there is not much time left to fulfill this formal condition.
- From this season, the list of species covered by the system will be expanded to include: rye, winter barley and spring barley.
Up until now, only winter and spring wheat and malting barley could be grown from cereals in the Integrated Production system. This year, two new methods have been introduced to the system: rye and winter and spring barley.
– We encourage all agricultural producers to conduct agricultural production in the integrated plant production system. IP allows for obtaining agricultural products with the highest biological and nutritional values and safe for human health. An issue as important as food safety is the promotion of environmental protection. An agricultural producer participating in the IP system can also receive financial support under the "Integrated Plant Production Eco-Scheme". – we read on the PIORIN website.
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What does the winter and spring barley methodology include?
The method of growing winter and spring barley is a kind of agrotechnical cultivation guide. The document consists of 67 pages. It discusses the details of cultivation, threats and agrotechnical nuances. A farmer who wants to enter the IP system should be particularly interested in the list of mandatory activities, which are included in Table 17.
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This list consists of 16 activities that the grower must fulfill point by point. One of the more important requirements that must be observed is that barley is not grown in monoculture. The methodology states that "barley should not be grown after barley, due to the possibility of infection by pathogenic fungi (at least a 3-year break is maintained). However, sowing after other cereal species is permitted.
When sowing barley, it is best to reach for varieties recommended by COBORU and use only and exclusively certified material (proof of purchase must be presented during the inspection). The most important activities that must be performed include cultivating with balanced fertilization (perform soil tests and, ideally, a fertilization plan). During the growing season, the plantation must be regularly inspected for phytosanitary threats and its results recorded in the IP Notebook.
After exceeding the economic harmfulness threshold, plant protection treatments can be performed, but with preparations included in the list of products permitted for IP (the list is maintained by IOR-PIB in Poznań). It is also important to perform at least one treatment (if registered) using biological plant protection products (seed dressing or spraying plants during vegetation) – confirmed by a purchase invoice.
Plantations should also include houses for mason bees and resting poles for predators.
More details on mandatory activities are included in the Winter and Spring Barley methodology, which can be found on the PIORIN website.
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What does the rye methodology include?
The Winter Rye Methodology is a 75-page PDF. The table with a list of mandatory activities contains 15 items. The points are similar to those for other cereal species. You need to sow qualified, choose the right varieties for sowing, monitor the cultivation and conduct it according to the principles established in the methodology.
The implementation of these requirements must be recorded in the IP Notebook, because this document is the subject of an annual inspection by the certification body. It consists of 40 pages to fill in and is available on the MRiRW website. This document contains numerous tables that must be filled in on an ongoing basis during cultivation.
We enter the necessary data into them, keep records of field treatments, document purchases and use of production resources such as: seed material, plant protection products or diagnostic tools. We also make a sketch of the fields of a given species in a notebook, on which we need to mark, for example, the places where the boxes for mason bees or resting poles are located.
Fulfillment of formal requirements and those included in the methodology is subject to on-site inspection. Therefore, before entering this system, it is worth reading the Integrated Rye Production methodology and answering the question of whether all the requirements included in this document can be met.
