Sustainability

To create diversity in the agricultural areas, DanRoots has established plant strips along the areas by the main building. The plant stripes are incredibly beautiful and many passers-by pick the “wild flowers”.

The flowers are not only pleasing to the eye – they are also pleasing to the bees. The active insect life is good for biodiversity, which is also enhanced through insect hotels and piles of stones where insects can hide/live.

Look for the sign when the flowers start to bloom.

You don’t always think about it, but organic production requires manual hand weeding. Organic root vegetables must be grown without the use of pesticides and therefore all weeds must be removed by hand. It’s a huge job that used to be done with tractors hitched in front of the weeding wagons. Today, the tractors have been replaced with solar-powered hatchbacks.

Every year, approximately 700 hectares of organic land is weeded, and before the solar-powered weeding trucks came into the picture, it was measured that each tractor drove approximately 580 hours per weeding season and that the consumption was approximately 20 liters of diesel oil per hour. In total, for one season, the diesel consumption was approx. 116,000 liters of diesel oil ………. This is now eliminated, which is good for both the economy and the environment.

The global agricultural sector faces a crucial challenge – feeding a growing population while meeting ambitious climate targets. DanRoots has embarked on a major effort to help chart the course towards a sustainable future in food production. One of the big goals will be to be able to document the total carbon footprint of a bag of root vegetables.

DanRoots’ goal is to combine professional knowledge with data from practice using the latest digital technology to promote innovation that supports the development of sustainable food production.