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GLOBAL 2000 Wireworm Project
In Austrian agriculture, a pest appears again and again: the wireworm. It ruins the potato harvest of local farmers and makes their lifes hard. The only way out appeared to be poisonous pesticides.
As the leading Austrian environmental protection organisation, we are actively looking for ways to fight the wireworm in a sustainable way. Therefore, GLOBAL 2000 founded the ARGE Drahtwurm in 2016.
The effectiveness of direct control methods such as a cultivator and an insect-pathogenic fungus (Metarhizium brunneum) is tested on several experimental fields.
More information about the project is available at: www.global2000.at/arge-drahtwurm
The project is supported by the federal and regional authorities and the European Union:
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism
LE 14-20 Austrian Rural Development Programme
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development