The KULUNDA research project
KULUNDA was launched in October 2011 as part of a major funding initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Under the global approach to "Sustainable Land Management", eleven German and Russian research institutes with a total of 65 scientists are conducting investigations into the long-term containment of soil erosion, humus formation and the stabilisation of yields in the agriculturally exploited steppes of south-western Siberia. Considerable land management problems have occurred in these regions since their conversion to agriculture in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of devastating erosion-related events and severe leaching of the soils.
The main objective of the KULUNDA project is to make a contribution to future global food security and to take effective action against anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Amazonen-Werke is supporting the project with a contribution of more than 500,000 euro. This concerns the development and testing of agricultural and technical innovations for future-oriented land management in the Kulunda Steppe in southern Siberia and other steppe regions of Russia and Kazakhstan.
You will find more information about the KULUNDA research project and its implementation in a PDF document at this link.