(Original name in Slovene: Slovensko združenje za ohranitveno kmetijstvo; PIC: 888321345; Adress: Periška cesta 12, 1261Ljubljana, Slovenia)
SACA members are farmers, practitioners and advocates of conservation agriculture principles, and other individuals from academia, advisory service, NGOs…)
Living Lab
Vision & Objectives
- researching and proving best practices of CA, locally adapted.
- influence and co-shape local agricultural policy to support CA.
- disseminate findings and promote CA system so that the consumers would demand CA (also called regenerative agriculture) as the best way of future ago-ecological agriculture.
Activities
- several long-term field experiments (over 10 years) organised as scientific research and as pilot demonstrations with local farmers in various pedo-climatic conditions;upgrading state of the art scientific research equipment for profound studies as well as testing novel farm machinery for successful CA practices implementation
- upgrading state of the art scientific research equipment for profound studies as well as testing novel farm machinery for successful CA practices implementationestablished national association for conservation agriculture (http://www.szoort.si/)
- establishment of national hub for agricultural soil
- established national association for conservation agriculture (http://www.szoort.si/)
- international co-operation (https://ecaf.org/ ; https://ejpsoil.eu/)
Production sector
- Arable farming
- Horticulture (vegetable, ornamental, fruit)
- Mixed farming
- Grassland management
- Aquaculture (algae for crops’ biostimulants)