Farmer Andreas Rolfs operates a biogas plant on about 235 hectares. Using corn, manure and slurry, the operator generated about 5.4 million kilowatt hours of electrical energy and 4.1 million kilowatt hours of thermal energy before expanding the plant. In Verbleck, Lower Saxony, ETW Energietechnik increased the capacity of an agricultural biogas plant by building a storage power plant in […]
The German Ministry of Agriculture has proposed an initiative to introduce a tax on “animal welfare.” In order to ensure the welfare of animals on farms, it is proposed to impose duties on meat and dairy products, reports the business portal. The agency calculated that the surcharge would cost consumers only 35.2 euros per year (23.8 euros for meat, 4.72 […]
The German daily Die Welt writes that humanity could be without bananas. A highly infectious soil fungus has attacked palm trees. It used to be common in Asia and Australia and has now reached South America, where the world’s most widely grown banana variety, Cavendish, accounts for 95% of world trade. The first plantations in Honduras and Colombia have already […]