SLIDE 1 Animal Production Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Research from a Country’s Perspective
SLOVAKIA National Agricultural and Food Centre
- Dipl. Ing. Andrea Strmeňová
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SLIDE 2 Clim ate Researchs
Climate Research in Slovakia
The principal investigator's institution is
The Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMI).
- specialized organization providing hydrological and meteorological
services.
- the successor of similar institutions in Slovakia from the mid-19th
century.
- state-subsidised organisation operating under the Slovak Ministry of
Environment.
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SLIDE 3 SHMI's activities include the following:
- monitoring of quantitative and qualitative parameters of the air and
water
- collecting, verifying, interpreting and archiving data and information on
the condition and regime of air and water
- describing developments in the atmosphere and hydrosphere
and issuing forecasts
- warnings and other information regarding the atmosphere and
hydrosphere
- data, information and other research are made available to the public
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Climate research in relation to Agriculture and Animal production
National Agricultural and Food Centre
Research Institute of Animal Production
SLIDE 5 Mission of NPPC The main purpose: find complex scientific and research solutions of problems in the sphere of biology and farming animals in form of goal
- riented fundamental and applied research up to the verification of
realization in the user’s sphere.
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Mission of RIAP
Main objective: solve the tasks of science and technical development for the branch of animal production, mainly in the sphere of breeding, housing, nutrition and feeding, conservation and treatment of feeds, biotechnology, reproduction, ethology, technology and ecologization of husbandry, biology and technique of farm animals, quality of meat, milk, wool, economy of production in animals. The RIAP is a complex integrated workplace of the departmental research Further activity of the NPPC and RIAP - creation of scientific programmes, concepts and prognoses in the sphere of animal production, expertise and extension work as well as education of scientific and professional workers.
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- Example of a prominent climate related project in Slovakia
Effect of internal and external factors on harmful gases emission and concentration in housing of pigs, chicken, and dairy cows (current project of the Slovak Research and Development Agency Bratislava, No. APVV-0632-10)
- What is special about this project?
This research project was developed on the basis of following knowledges:
- agriculture has large impact on environment
- it also produces a lot of organic waste (manure, slurry, droppings, litter)
releasing emissions of ammonia (NH3), greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O a H2O) and odor
- it can have undesirable influence to the water, air and soil quality
Clim ate Project
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- ammonia and greenhouse gases emissions are a global
concern
- less knowledge’s about noxious gases emissions - start
research on farms with high capacities of poultry and pigs
- ammonia can be harmful by long-term exposure - negative
influence on housed animal’s performance
- effort to reduce ammonia releasing from decomposed
excrement’s from animal buildings, slurry and manure storages and land application (fertilization)
SLIDE 9 Purpose of our research
- Determination of ammonia and greenhouse gases emission factors for
fattening pigs housed on a slatted floor
- to evaluate the effects of clinoptilolite application into slurry on ammonia
concentrations
- to discover the effects of season, age and hybrid
combination of broilers on the levels of ammonia and carbon dioxide; obtain the effects of season, milk production and bedding type on the concentration of NH3 and GHG in dairy cows
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SLIDE 10 Hypotheses
- The amount of slurry under slatted floor affects gas concentration and
emissions
- The concentrations and emissions of gases will increase with the age of
animals
- The concentrations and emissions are influenced by the animal
behavior
- Higher ventilation capacity decreases the concentration and increases
the emission of gases
- Higher interior temperature increases gas concentration and emissions
- The season of the year has an impact on the concentration and
emissions of gases
Objective 1: To determinate of emission factors in the fattening pigs category housed on the slatted floor.
SLIDE 11 Hypotheses
- Ammonia and carbon dioxide concentrations
vary during the year
- Ammonia and carbon dioxide concentrations
increase with the age of the animal
- Ammonia and carbon dioxide
concentrations are similar in hybrid combinations ROSS a COBB
Objective 2 To evaluate the levels of ammonia and carbon dioxide and their dependence on season, age and hybrid combination of broilers
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SLIDE 12 Hypotheses
- Ammonia, carbon dioxide and methane
concentrations are the highest in the winter season
- The rise in milk productivity will increase ammonia,
carbon dioxide and methane concentrations
- The choice of bedding material (straw, mattress) affects
the concentrations of ammonia, carbon dioxide and methane
Objective 3 Monitoring of microclimatic parameters (NH3, CO2, CH4, temperature, relative humidity, air flow) and their dependance
- n season, milk productivity of animals,
and applied housing technology in the housing of dairy cows
SLIDE 13 Effects of cold temperatures on milk yield, behaviour and physiological parameters of cows
- Estimation of cold stress on dairy cows
- Impact of thermal-humidity index on milk yield under
conditions of different dairy management
- Effect of high temperature on growth performance of calves
maintained in outdoor hutches
- Effect of hot temperatures on the hematological parameters,
health and performance of calves
- Effects of heat environment on performance, behaviour, and
physiological responses of dairy cows
- Mapping of harmful gases concentrations and emmissions in
Slovak in animal husbandry- cattle, pigs and chickens Our former scientific projects on the similar topics
SLIDE 14 Research cooperation with
- Utah State University, Logan, Utah,USA; AM University in
College Station, Texas, USA;
- INRA France
- WUR the Netherlands
- University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of
Agriculture, Czech Republic.
- Research Institute of Animal Production,
Praha – Uhrineves, Czech Republic;
- Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra, Slovakia
What are your international connections in this field of research?
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