Nébih and MATE won a grant for the development of the National Laboratory of Agricultural Technology

By: STA Date: 2023. 03. 22. 09:30

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For the development of the National Laboratory of Agricultural Technology, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) has won a substantial grant of HUF 1.2 billion, jointly with the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, in the National Laboratory program of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. As part of the project with the identification number 2022-2.1.1-NL-2022-00006, among other things, mobile test laboratories are being developed, and a national soil database will be created, which will also be supplemented with a domestic soil spectral library. The developments will help farmers, laboratories and public administration actors alike.

The goal of the National Laboratory of Agricultural Technology is to preserve and improve the soil and its related environmental conditions. Nébih’s main soil protection endeavor is to bring farmers’ soil cultivation habits and the developments achieved in the agricultural science sector closer to each other, and to help mitigate soil degradation.

The office created the National Soil Database summarizing the test results of Hungarian soil laboratories

This is complemented by a domestic soil spectral library. The system provides a background for research aimed at the fertility and functions of soils, as well as their spatial extent. In addition, the database helps farmers and public administration bodies to carry out their soil protection tasks without additional financial or administrative burdens through the constantly expanding data. In the first phase of the development, the web service for data submission was completed, thanks to which more than half of the soil test data can be collected automatically. In the second phase – expectedly from the second half of 2023 – Nébih will make the online interface providing manual data provision available to test sites that do not have an interface connection.

As part of the National Laboratory of Agricultural Technology project, MATE is also developing a mobile testing laboratory covering three professional areas

In the process, a mobile soil laboratory, a mobile emission laboratory suitable for testing air pollutant emissions from combustion equipment and gas engine technologies, and a mobile laboratory suitable for testing plant protection machines will be created. As part of the project, an organic micropollutant analytical laboratory will also be created, which will be complemented by the development of testing methodology. The main responsibility of the program is Nébih and the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), the development is realized with the professional support of the Agrárközgazdasági Intézet Nonprofit Kft. (AKI). The project with a subsidy of HUF 1,215,200,080 is expected to end at the end of 2023.

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