Special Agricultural Ministers' Conference on Livestock farming

As part of the special Agricultural Ministers' Conference, the decline in agricultural livestock farming in Baden-Württemberg and Germany was discussed. The Minister of Agriculture considered it imperative to develop a sustainable overall concept for conversion of animal husbandry towards more animal welfare.

"The already tense situation of animal -keeping companies is currently being reinforced by lack of planning security when the remodeling of livestock farming. href = "https://mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/unsere-themen/tierchutz-tiergeheit/artgerechte-user farming" Class = "Link-External"> Counterding in Germany. Such overall concept from animal husbandry marking, long-term financing as well as adjustments in immission protection and building law is a conversion of animal husbandry and a switch to higher forms of husbandry, ”said the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Agriculture and spokesman for the CDU Agricultural Minister in Germany, Peter Hauk, on May 5, 2023 on the occasion of the special agricultural ministerial conference in Berlin.

With great concern, Baden-Württemberg's agricultural minister Peter Hauk looked at the accelerating decline in agricultural livestock farming in Germany and in Baden-Württemberg as part of the special agricultural ministerial conference. The Minister of Agriculture considered it imperative to develop a sustainable overall concept for conversion of animal husbandry towards more animal welfare. It is essential to open up future prospects to the animal owners in a changing market. "But we also need a secure and reliable support and long-term financing. Our goal must be to enable animal husbandry. Class = "Link-External"> Implementation of the Borchert Commission .

around 300 pig -containing companies gave up

The lack of planning security currently poses major challenges for many agricultural pet owners and leads to increasingly operating from animal husbandry, especially from pig farming. In Baden-Württemberg alone, around 300 pig-containing companies gave up in 2022. Not even 40 percent of the Baden-Württemberg citizens can consume pork from Baden-Württemberg. "The overall package must take into account the entire pig farming, other agricultural animals as well as all marketing routes and processed products. We also urgently need easier in the approval procedures for the necessary structural measures to adapt the stables. Hauk.

When implementing the animal husbandry identification law, the ministers placed particular emphasis on high consumer transparency. "At the risk of relocating and processing animal foods abroad due to the in the Animal Care Laws Contained voluntary labeling for foreign goods we have expressly pointed out the federal government, ”emphasized Minister Peter Hauk. Despite the difficult economic situation, agricultural businesses in Germany are willing to accept the upcoming challenges for the conversion of livestock farming in Germany and to convert their animal husbandry sustainably and socially. The countries would have to be closely integrated in the further development of the overall concept.

funding options for the countries must be preserved

"We have asked the federal government to give the animal -keeping companies a long -term perspective and thus legal and financial planning security. Noopener "Target =" _ blank "href =" https://foerderung.andwirtschaft-bw.de/pb/tstartsite/foerderwegweiser/agrarinvestitionprogramm+_fp_+TeInteDeTeDeKENDE "Class =" Link-External "> Agrarinvestition funding also not to medium cuts in the Community task Agricultural structure and coastal protection (GAK) Coming.

In the context of the special agricultural ministerial conference and in connection with livestock husbandry in Germany, the regulations of the possible use of emission privilege according to the Technical instructions for keeping the air (TA Luft) . The TA Luft specifies protection and precautionary requirements for animal husbandry plants that require approval under immission protection law. In conjunction with the TA air, approval problems often occur in all structural projects, including animal welfare and stables of ecological production. "We need practical and economically sustainable solutions for all animal -keeping companies. Immission protection law requirements that oppose animal welfare -appropriate agricultural animal husbandry must be adjusted in order to clear up conversion objections. In addition, the federal government should concretize the regulations of the TA Air in such a way that after the implementation of animal welfare, an unavoidable increase in emissions in the assessment of the protective requirements should It is taken into account ”, said Minister Peter Hauk.