Healthy soil with intact functions is the foundation for sustainable agriculture and forestry.
Sustainable agriculture and forestry need healthy soils. Soils provide the basis for food and biomass production, they filter the groundwater, store water, nutrients and carbons, and offer habitats to numerous organisms. However, soils are also a basis for work, living, leisure time, food supply or clean drinking water.
On 9 January 2019, the new digital agricultural soil map and its applications were presented in great detail in the Gobelinsaal of the Federal Ministry and the Austrian Research Centre for Forests. Interest in the event and thus the use of the new map was very high, not only among people from the agricultural sector. The hall was filled to the last seat.