Chinese hunger for corn will remain

07/27/2021 | 16:55:00 | ID: 30587 | Department: Agriculture | Science & Research Braunschweig (agrar-PR) - agri benchmark: Innovations in arable farming systems call for a new research strategy June came to an end. For one week, more than 140 research partners and experts from the agri benchmark network as well as invited guests from the agricultural sector discussed the future of global agriculture in ten sessions. The network is coordinated by the Thünen Institute of Business Administration. Local expertise plus high-tech for new, location-adapted production systems Investigations by Jannik Dresemann from the agri benchmark Center in Braunschweig have shown that farmers face challenges in many cultivation systems Pest resistance to certain pesticides or the simple lack of pesticides. Second, there is the need to reduce nutrient losses - especially nitrogen - due to increasing societal concerns about negative environmental impacts and greenhouse gas emissions. The latter topic in ...