Director of the LTZ retired

"The LTZ Augustenberg has developed into a state-of-the-art technology center for agriculture and an important institution in the country. Plant construction, in particular studies of plants, seeds and floors. To put up with society.

Director Dr. Haber led the LTZ with great personal commitment. "Dr. Norbert Haber was always careful that the work of the agricultural technology center generates added value for practical crop construction in Baden-Württemberg and not becoming an end in itself," emphasized Hauk.

The LTZ is the largest agricultural state institution in Baden-Württemberg, which, in connection with the biodiversity strengthening law, is implementing many future-oriented research projects, for example in plant engineering and crop protection.

"This includes the further development of integrated crop protection to IPSplus, the structure of the demonstration operating network plant protection reduction and the establishment of a representative operating measurement network for success control of the pesticide reduction. Habers.

100 invited guests from the agricultural administration, the profession and cooperating institutions took part in the adoption of the LTZ director. Minister Hauk outlined Dr. Haber, from the promotion in Hohenheim, the subsequent agricultural referema at the then Agricultural Office Crailsheim, via various stations at the Karlsruhe Regional Council, the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Agriculture to the management of LTZ Augustenberg.

Director Dr. Due to the adaptability and flexibility of the LTZ Augustenberg as well as predictive investments, Haber has established the technology center future -proof. "It should also be emphasized by Dr. Haber's good national and international networking, for example in the Interreg region 'Oberrhein' with Rhineland Palatinate, the French Alsace and the Swiss cantons of Aargau, Basel landscape and Solothurn," emphasized Hauk. The minister thanked Dr. Haber for the excellently done work and wished him all the best for the new phase of life.

Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg

The Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg (LTZ) is a facility in the division of the Ministry of Nutrition, Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection (MLR) and was created in 2007 by the merger of the State Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute (Lufa) Augustenberg, the State Institute for Plant Protection (LFP) Stuttgart and the State Institute for Plant Construction (LAP). In 2016, additional tasks of the State Institute for Agricultural Chemistry, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, to which LTZ was transferred, especially in the investigations in the area of fertilizer and feed. Since its existence, the LTZ has been made by Dr. Norbert Haber led.

The main focus of the LTZ lies in the vegetable production and include tests on questions of crop protection, arable and plant construction as well as studies of plants, seeds, floors, fertilizer protection and feed. The LTZ has the headquarters in Karlsruhe with examination laboratories, offices, a modern research greenhouse and an affiliated test material for fruit growing. In various growing regions of Baden-Württemberg there are branch offices and numerous test areas. A total of more than 300 people are employed at LTZ.