Context
Further to the new decree of nitrogen sustainable management in agriculture in the Walloon Region, new standards are set up concerning the volume of effluents generated by animals. Furthermore, the legislation plans a 6 months storage period in farms, as well as the setting up of water-tightness and saving inspection systems of flowing out liquids within storage infrastructures.Depending on their situation, farmers will have to apply standards for the 1st of January 2007 at the latest. This is why it seems important to allow farmers to go at best through this change by bringing them all necessary information to the good management of the works concerned.
Objectives
This vade-mecum aims at presenting the new regulation as well as the way to proceed in order to determine the volumes of effluents generated in the farm, the necessary advice to the carrying out of the works as well as their cost.Description of tasks
Collect of information :- regulations on storage infrastructures ;
- regulations on the management of cattle effluents ;
- kind of effluents and factors which influence them ;
- materials ;
- techniques to be used.
Critical analysis of these documents and writing of a vade-mecum.
Results obtained
Writing of a report on the storage of effluents. This report contains information on :- farm fertilizers (type, characteristics, composition) ;
- concrete in agriculture ;
- buildings : extension or opening of an existing building, control of rain water, location of a new building, building of a pit and a manure storage area ;
- the control of the volumes of dejecta and calculation of the quantities produced.
Partners
Agra-ost, Nitrawal, Walloon Pig Sector, FWA (Walloon Federation of Agriculture), Rural Economy Centre of Marloie, Veterinary medicine University Ulg – Department of BioclimatologyFunding
- DGARNE
