Long-term management of meadow orchards due to their environmental,economic and development significance within the protected areas

The project aims to develop a long term the sustainable management of high-trunk orchards that can be realised only by joint cross-border cooperation (between Slovenia, Hungary and Austria). Since the challenges for the future are shared in each territories. The issues (emigration of young people,scatter-mess of land, agening population, lack of sustainable technical equipment etc) of all park managers are similar. The aim is transfer of exchange: knowledge, technologies tech.equipment, logistics and assets.

The project is based on the fact that the area under the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy used to be under a common political, educational system, that resulted is a common or similar agricultural system (in our case it is fruit growing). The consequence is a common heritage of the same traditional apple varieties, and knowledge how to manage them. Similar geographical and environmental conditions(soil) are a basis of the common endeavor of solving some of the problems of the rural environment for several hundred of years.

- Common long term strategy for sustainable management of meadow orchards; - Joint digital database with the supply and demand of traditional fruit sort seeding and fruit processing with formation of a complete database of varieties, owners, structure , condition, biodiversity on the orchards of each of the 3 parks; - International consultation session on multifunctionality of meadow orchards; - Revitalized orchards. - Collective orchards with regulated information point; - Newly planted tress of high-trunk varieties. - Plan and start of the process of certification and control of the quality of the processing of products; - Publication; - Joint workshops with the demonstartions of the cut and fruit processing.

LAGs

Hungary, Austria

Slovene, English

Agriculture, Nature/environment/land management

27/09/2010