- Integrated Plant 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 reporting crops 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 meet this formal condition.
- From this season, the list of species covered by the system includes: rye, winter and spring barley.
Until now, only winter and spring wheat and malting barley could be grown from cereals in the Integrated Production system. Starting this year, two new methodologies have been introduced into the system for rye and winter and spring barley.
– We encourage all agricultural producers to conduct agricultural production in the integrated plant production system. IP makes it possible to obtain agricultural products with the highest biological and nutritional values and safe for human health. Promoting environmental protection is an equally important issue as food safety. An agricultural producer participating in the IP system may also receive financial support under the "Integrated Plant Production Ecoscheme". – we read on the PIORIN website.
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What does the winter and spring barley methodology include?
The methodology for growing winter and spring barley is like an agrotechnical cultivation guide. The document consists of 67 pages. It talks about 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 obligatory activities included in table no. 17.
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Integrated production of rapeseed and wheat, i.e. cultivation of subsidies
This list consists of 16 activities that the grower must complete point by point. The most important requirements that must be ensured are that barley should not be grown in a monoculture. The methodology includes the provision "however, barley should not be grown after barley due to the possibility of infection by pathogenic fungi (a minimum break of 3 years is maintained). When sowing barley, it is best to use varieties recommended by COBORU and use only certified material (proof of purchase must be presented during the inspection). The most important activities that must be performed are cultivation with balanced fertilization (perform soil tests and, preferably, a fertilizer plan). During the growing season, the plantation must be regularly inspected for phytosanitary threats and the results recorded in the IP Notebook. After exceeding the threshold of economic harmfulness, plant protection treatments can be performed, but with preparations included in the list of agents approved for IP (maintained by the Institute of Plant Protection in Poznań). It is also important to perform at least one treatment (if registered) using biological plant protection products ( dressing grain or spraying plants during the growing season) – confirmed with a purchase invoice. It is also mandatory to place houses for mason bees and resting poles for predators on plantations. More details can be found 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 obligatory activities contains 15 items. The points are similar to those for other cereal species. You need to sow the crop properly, 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 complete and is available on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It consists mainly of numerous tables that must be filled in on an ongoing basis during cultivation. "e". There we write down the necessary data, keep records of field treatments, document purchases and the use of production means such as seed material, plant protection products and diagnostic tools. We make a sketch of the fields of a given species on which we need to mark, for example, places where houses for mason bees or resting poles are located.
