!!!Meliorationen

Land Improvement Measures, measures designed to ameliorate (improve) 
utilizable agricultural areas. The first systematic drainage plant of 
the Monarchy was built in Angern an der March in 1856. In 1873 the 
Institute for Agricultural Engineering (Institut fuer 
landwirtschaftliches Ingenieurswesen) at the University of 
Agricultural Sciences was founded as a forerunner of cultivation 
technology studies, which were established in 1883. The original 
principal objective, i.e. drainage, has now become of minor 
importance. State support for land improvement measures was abolished 
on January 1, 1994. New tasks such as land protection, i.e. protection 
against erosion (e.g. wind protective belts) and water have been taken 
over by the provincial administrative bodies.


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