The Federal Agricultural Research Center (FAL) was a federal authority of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. On January 1, 2008, FAL was split into Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, the Julius Kuehn Institute and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute.

The Federal Research Institute for Agriculture was divided into four areas:

• Soil / Plant (Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Agronomy and green agriculture, agro-ecology)
• Animal (animal nutrition, animal husbandry, animal welfare and animal husbandry)
• Technology (technology and biosystems, engineering and Construction)
• Agricultural Economics (Business Administration, Rural areas, market and agricultural trade policy)

There was also a Institute of Organic Farming in Westerau

Westerau

Westerau is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

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Institutes

• Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science in Brunswick
• Institute for Crop and Green Agriculture in Brunswick
• Institute for Agricultural Ecology in Brunswick
• Institute for organic farming in Trent Horst
• Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry in Celle
• Institute for Animal Nutrition in Brunswick
• Institute for Animal Breeding in Mariensee
• Institute for Technology and Biosystems in Brunswick
• Institute of Industrial Technology and Construction in Brunswick
• Institute of Management in Brunswick
• Institute for Rural Studies in Brunswick
• Institute for Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy in Brunswick

External links

• Website