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Basic data
Project identification: GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00028
Project title: Interdisciplinary Research Group for Promoting Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture
Name of beneficary: Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (H-2492 Martonvásár, Brunszvik u. 2.)
Consortium partner: Eötvös Loránd University
Professional leader: Nándor FODOR
Project implementation period: 15.02.2017. - 14.02.2021.
Amount of contracted financial support: 1.277.355.508 HUF
Project support: 100 %
Content of the project:
The long-term evolution of agro-ecosystems may be already analyzed today by using climate-manipulation experiments and mechanistic system models. We aim to mitigate the effect of potential future hazards by elaborating various action plans for the agricultural sector in Hungary. Within the frame of the AgroMo project we build an experimental platform, where experimentalists and modellers plan the activities and analyze the results together. This interdisciplinary and complex approach guarantees the unique knowledge base of AgroMo.
Based on a system approach the use of our comprehensive database allows us to accomplish model developments and surpass the present state of science. We are open for cooperation with international research teams for potential further improvements at a Global scale.
Modeling future crop yield quality and quantity uniquely supports the latest food security requirements in plant breeding, as well as possible volume developments expected by the food industry. Based on these results, we may draw conclusions and prescribe development trajectories by using applied research methods. We try to quantify the future evolution of the national economic benefits of the five main field crops (wheat, maize, sunflower, barley, rape) within the Hungarian agricultural sector.
The main objectives of the AgroMo project are:
1. Creating a multidisciplinary research group, which involves theoretical and practical (empirical) experts of the disciplines related to the atmosphere-soil-plant system.
2. Creating an agro-pedo-climatological experimental platform based on a holistic system approach at Martonvásár. We aim to combine the experiences of valuable traditional long-term field experiments and climate chamber stress research with the latest measurement and info-communication technologies.
3. Developing up-to-date climate projections to achieve more reliable estimates of future production.
4. Elaborating a conveniently adaptive (modular, open source) Integrated Model System (AgroMo), which explicitly simulates the operations of the Hungarian agricultural system at different spatial scales: farm, regional and national scale.
5. Developing strategies (recommendations) to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and establishing action plans to mitigate the potential climatic threats.
Detailed documentation of the project [in Hungarian only; PDF file, ~11 MB]
Press release (22.02.2017.)
The project on the website of MTA ATK
Project descrption at the website of ELTE
Contract
The research was funded by the Széchenyi 2020 programme, the European Regional Development Fund and the Hungarian Government (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00028).
