• January 27, 2025
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January

February

March

  • We organized the BIOEAST Bioeconomy Conference and the kick-off meeting of BOOST4BIOEAST (B4B), which is the first Horizon Europe project in which ÖMKi is the coordinator.
  • We presented a soil profile from the Homokhátság within the nationwide action called “LIFE IN THE SOIL: what a soil profile can tell us”, initiated by the Hungarian Soil Science Society.
  • Our GO-GRASS project successfully ended.
  • We released four new booklets in the topics of earthworms, green manuring, digital sensors used on grazing cattle, and the results of the post-registration small-plot organic winter cereal variety tests.

April

  • We organized our annual Organic Sectoral Day in Keszthely.
  • Our citizen science research project on analysing leaf composts has been relaunched. This time our volunteer researchers grew tomato seedlings for 6 weeks.
  • We published our Map of Ancient Cereal Products.
  • Two new projects have been launched: ClimateSmartAdvisors (Transition to Climate Smart Farming) and OrganicAdviceNetwork (European-wide network of organic advisors and advisory services).

May

  • We invited Jean-Martin Fortier, one of the best known international specialists of biointensive gardening, to give a workshop in Hungary. His book called “The Market Gardener” will be published in Hungarian at the end of 2025 by ÖMKi.
  • It was the 6th year in which our organic landrace tomato varieties could be purchased nationwide.
  • On the International Day for Biological Diversity our researchers published preliminary results from their field observations on arthropods, mostly pollinators.

June

July

August

  • We moved to our new office!
  • We published a summary on the results of international and Hungarian comparative studies analysing whether foods coming from organic farming systems are really healthier than others.
  • We launched a new research on analysing Hungarian consumers’ organic food related knowledge and behaviour.

September

  • International and Hungarian professionals of organic farming met at the 18th European Organic Farming Congress in Budapest, which was organized by ÖMKi, IFOAM and the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture during the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union.
  • We participated as an exhibitor and as presenters at ÖKO Expo, which is the largest organic farming related event in Hungary.
  • We joined the European event series called Researchers’ Night again, providing playful programmes to the visitors.

October

  • During our autumn staff meeting we cooked over open fire in the garden of our new office, and then we hiked up to Róka Mountain that provides a nice panorama to us.
  • Our projects called CAPTIVATE and i2connect successfully ended.
  • Based on the multiannual sensory and botanical analyses of Hungarian pastures, we published prelminiary research results on sustainable grazing practices.

November

December

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