!!!Pflanzenschutz

Plant Protection: The aim of plant protection is to control the 
decrease in yield caused by animals, fungi, bacteria and viruses with 
the help of chemical and biological methods. As well as controlling 
diseases and vermin, it is of major importance to eradicate noxious 
weeds. Without plant protection the yield level would decrease by 
23-35 %, and yield fluctuations would increase.

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The bacteriological department of the agricultural-chemical research 
department in Vienna was established in 1901 as an independent 
"Station for Agriculture, Bacteriology and Plant 
Protection"; its founder and first director was K. Kornauth (1920 
"Staatsanstalt fuer Pflanzenschutz", State Institution for 
Plant Protection). Research on plant protection is also carried out at 
the University of Agricultural Sciences, at the Bundesamt fuer Wein- 
und Obstbau (Federal Office for Wine and Fruit Growing) in conjunction 
with the Institute of Apiculture (Klosterneuburg), at the Hoehere 
Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt fuer Gartenbau (advanced-level Federal 
Research Institute for Horticulture, Vienna-Schoenbrunn) and at the 
Forstliche Bundesversuchsanstalt (Federal Research Institute for 
Forestry) in Vienna (forest protection). The 
Kulturpflanzenschutzgesetz (Law on Plant Protection) of 1929 provided 
the legal basis for a comprehensive service on plant protection, which 
was restructured in 1945. The federal provinces are responsible for 
its implementation.

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Under the Plant Protection Act of 1948 and the Pesticide Regulation 
published in 1949 only such pesticides can be marketed as have been 
tested by the Bundesanstalt fuer Pflanzenschutz (Federal Institute for 
Plant Protection) and authorised by the Federal Ministry of 
Agriculture and Forestry (compulsory registration). A number of laws 
on plant protection provide regulations for specific matters such as 
import regulations for pesticides, plants and seeds.

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The amount of pesticides used every year (1992: 3,900 t active 
agent) and the number of registered pesticides is declining.

!Literature
Pflanzenschutz-Berichte, 1947ff., Der Pflanzenarzt, 
1948ff. (from 1985 Pflanzenschutz); Taetigkeitsbericht der 
Bundesanstalt fuer Pflanzenschutz; Jahresbericht der Bundesanstalt 
fuer Pflanzenschutz; F. Beran, 50 Jahre oesterreichischer 
Pflanzenschutz, 1901-1951, 1951; Bibliographie der 
Pflanzenschutz-Literatur, 2 vols., 1953; Oesterreichischer 
Fachkalender fuer Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenschutz, 1994.


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