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Freising's BBV officials sound the alarm: "We need agricultural protection areas!"

2022-01-25T17:03:25.873Z


Freising's BBV officials sound the alarm: "We need agricultural protection areas!" Created: 01/25/2022, 18:00 By: Andreas Beschorner Raising the alarm: BBV managing director Gerhard Stock (left) and district chairman Georg Radlmaier. © currently According to the BBV, agricultural land is being lost every year. Now those responsible in the district are also sounding the alarm and calling for pr


Freising's BBV officials sound the alarm: "We need agricultural protection areas!"

Created: 01/25/2022, 18:00

By: Andreas Beschorner

Raising the alarm: BBV managing director Gerhard Stock (left) and district chairman Georg Radlmaier.

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According to the BBV, agricultural land is being lost every year.

Now those responsible in the district are also sounding the alarm and calling for protective measures.

Freising

– "If things continue like this, sooner or later we will have a massive problem," says BBV Managing Director Gerhard Stock, describing the situation.

Because agriculture is in danger of running out of soil.

Between 1988 and 2020, around 5,500 hectares of agricultural land were taken away from farmers in the Freising district alone.

And that's not even counting the airport construction with its 755 hectares in the district of Freising alone.

Farmers across Bavaria are now sounding the alarm.

"Incomprehensible"

One is aware that space is needed for living space, business and roads, said BBV district chairman Georg Radlmaier at a virtual press conference.

Nevertheless, it is "incomprehensible" that the problem has worsened in the recent past, that good agricultural soils have "disappeared", so to speak.

The Bavarian Farmers' Association now wants to counteract this with a nationwide campaign.

And the district association of the BBV is also involved - especially since the surface consumption has "always been a tiresome topic in the airport region", according to Stock.

Sobering record

Between 1960 and 2016, 840,000 hectares of agricultural land were lost in Bavaria, in Upper Bavaria it was around 64,000 hectares between 1988 and 2020, and 5,500 hectares in the Freising district. There are currently 1,523 farming families in Freising who farm 49,386 hectares. Important: The loss of valuable soil is not only due to road construction and "concreting", newly created ponds, sports facilities, embankments and compensation areas would also contribute to the loss of land for agriculture. This increasing use of land contradicts the "original goals of the farming family", Stock emphasized - as if there were sustainable cultivation of the soil, the farm and land passed on from generation to generation, the plants as CO2 storage,the soil as a water filter for the groundwater, and and and. Conclusion: The land consumption must be reduced, the withdrawal of agricultural land for infrastructure projects must be minimized.

solutions

And how?

Strengthening the inner development of the places, allowing densification, building upwards, striving for the conversion and revitalization of unused building areas, using the compensation money for interventions in the landscape exclusively for unsealing areas - these are the suggestions and suggestions of the BBV.

By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Politics is required

Politicians are asked when it comes to alternative options for compensating for construction measures: the ecological upgrading of so-called "Eh da" areas must be better exploited, existing eco-points in the communities must be better used and the designation of agricultural areas as compensation areas preferred compensation areas should be upgraded, Stock listed a few examples.

In short: "We need agricultural protection areas!" Because farmers, emphasized Radlmaier, "think in generations".

And the photovoltaic?

And what do farmers say about open-space photovoltaic systems or agro-PV, which would allow agricultural use under the high solar panels?

Radlmaier's opinion is clear: Before using agricultural land for this purpose, it is better to equip all house, multi-storey car park and commercial building roofs with PV systems.

Agro-PV is also not the right thing to do, because after all, the plants underneath also need sun.

Stock added that such PV systems from investors cause the rent to rise and are also "not necessarily nice for the landscape".

And that is at least as important to the farmers as the production of food and energy.

Source: merkur

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