The world as a whole, and the actions that humans carry out in it, are increasingly turning towards the search for sustainability. This is what farming is aiming for, at least in the current context, with challenges such as those proposed by climate change and the need to feed a growing population sufficiently and safely.
In order to reduce the environmental footprint of food-producing systems and at the same time guarantee the availability of healthy and accessible foodstuffs, both for the current population and the future one –it has been calculated that by 2050 the Earth’s population will be 10 billion people–, in 2020, the European Commission presented its ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy, at the heart of the so-called European Green Deal, in the aim of moving the current EU food systems towards a sustainable model. This strategy incorporates principles such as halving the use of pesticides and fertilisers and the sale of anti-microbials and increasing the amount of land dedicated to organic farming.
Complementary to this is the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which also advocates a more sustainable food system that also helps to protect nature and biodiversity in Europe.
Furthermore, the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is also focused on the modernisation of farming through the development of more sustainable farming practices, while at the same protecting nature and combating climate change.
In short, Europe is moving towards farming that respects the environment and biodiversity and, as a result, farming professionals are already adapting to practices that promote principles such as sustainable tillage.
In order to keep land healthy, reduce its erosion and degradation and conserve its structure and biodiversity, it is necessary to work on it in the right way and with quality tools.
Bellota Agrisolutions offers a wide portfolio of solutions adapted to the requirements of concepts such as conservation farming or biofarming. The latter is a farming technique that promotes the drastic reduction of the use of chemicals and their replacement with biofertilizers and biopesticides and which includes practices such as crop rotation, conservation of natural resources and the creation of a safe working environment for producers.
Bellota products are perfectly designed for these new ways of working the land; from their curved subsoiler, with tines that have a well-placed forward and lateral inclination and fluff up the soil, making it more porous, while at the same time keeping the surface intact and improving the circulation of water and oxygenation in the soil, thus favouring root growth and plant development; to their cultivators, with their multiple functions (pulling weeds, clod crushing, loosening the land´s surface layer, forming a thin layer over the sow bed, preparing the land for irrigation and adding fertilizers).
With Bellota, sustainable tillage is possible.
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