Division Title of the action: Regional mineral balances for

EU contribution: EUR 35 000

Schedule for the work: January-December 2007

Short description of the action:

Regional mineral balances following the Eurostat/OECD handbook will be derived for five grassland areas, based on data on regional use of fertiliser and/or fertiliser use coefficients per crop, data on the transport of manure and data on regional crop production.

Data on regional feed balances for ruminants developed in the TAPAS-2001 project will be introduced. Data on regional use of fertiliser and on the transportation of manure come from a national registration on a farm level. The work includes the integration of several statistical data sources from different institutes. Part of the data has to be made available to Statistics Netherlands especially for this project.