News item | 04-12-2025 | 11:00
Today, Minister Femke Wiersma of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature (LVVN) opened the National Innovation Desk for Livestock Farming during the first knowledge day ‘Target Management in Agriculture’. Farmers and developers of innovations can go here for information, guidance and support with innovations that contribute to less nitrogen, particulate matter and greenhouse gases.
Minister Wiersma: “Our agricultural sector is one of the most innovative in the world. This requires that we make it possible for the sector to apply these innovations in practice. The innovation desk supports the sector in taking these much-needed steps.”
More personal control
In the coming years, a transition will be made from means-based management to goal-oriented management. This gives farmers more scope to determine, based on their expertise, how they will achieve goals in the areas of nitrogen, climate and water quality. Important in achieving these goals is to ensure sufficient technical and social innovations that contribute to fewer emissions. Many of these innovations are promising in theory, but implementation in practice often proves difficult. This requires a central place for advice and support.
Public-private partnership
The National Innovation Desk for Livestock Farming is an initiative of more than 25 public and private organizations that are united in the Regieorgaan Accelerating Innovation Emission Reduction Sustainable Livestock Farming. Livestock farmers and developers of innovations can contact this innovation desk with questions and for the right guidance to bring an innovative idea into practice. This innovation desk helps to improve the innovation process, remove bottlenecks and create breakthrough innovations. The ultimate goal is to help livestock farming to produce even more efficiently with as few losses as possible on their farm. That is a profit for the farmer and fewer emissions.