Federal Agricultural Research Centre

Braunschweig, main gate

The Federal Agricultural Research Center (FAL) (German: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft), headquartered in Braunschweig, was a federal authority of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. On January 1, 2008, FAL was split into the , 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.

Institutes[]

• Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science in Braunschweig
• Institute for Crop and Green Agriculture in Braunschweig
• Institute for Agricultural Ecology in Braunschweig
• Institute for organic farming in Westerau
• Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry in Celle
• Institute for Animal Nutrition in Braunschweig
• Institute for Animal Breeding in Mariensee (Neustadt am Rübenberge)
• Institute for Technology and Biosystems in Braunschweig
• Institute of Industrial Technology and Construction in Braunschweig
• Institute of Management in Braunschweig
• Institute for Rural Studies in Braunschweig
• Institute for Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy in Braunschweig

External links[]

• Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei

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Coordinates: 52°17′30″N 10°26′27″E / 52.29167°N 10.44083°E / 52.29167; 10.44083