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European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF)

ECAF was constituted in Brussels on 14th January, 1999, as a non-profit making international association, subjected to the Belgium laws. It was conceived to encourage any issue focused on maintaining the agrarian soil and its biodiversity in the context of sustainable agriculture. ECAF is not involved in any commercial product, equipment and/ or trademark.

The European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) brings together nineteen national associations which promote among Europe’s farmers the soil management “best practice” aspects of Conservation Agriculture. With member associations in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Moldova, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom, ECAF represents the interests of the majority of the European Union’s cropped farmland.

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SINCE 1995 According to official Swiss statistics (OFAG – Agricultural Report 2021), around 80,948 hectares were cultivated in 2020 using conservation agriculture practices.
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SINCE 2016 The use of no-till and strip-till is still in the experimental phase. There are only a few genuine no-till machines in Slovenia. The problems are weeds due to the humid, warm climate.
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The aims of ECAF are:

Information

to promote information to society about the techniques that make it possible to conserve agrarian soil and its biodiversity, in the context of sustainable agriculture

Investigation

to encourage the development, teaching and investigation on any aspect related to Conservation Agriculture and the biodiversity of agrarian soil

Development

to develop all kinds of activities and programs addressed to the achievement of the previous aims