Greening 2017: farmers take stock

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Greening has been in effect for over 80 percent of the arable land in bavaria since the beginning of 2015 as part of european agricultural policy. In this way, a lot of additional habitat for wild animals, bees, insects and wild plants has been created in the third "greening year", according to a press release of the bavarian farmers’ association for the county of kitzingen. Farmers have created "ecological priority areas" (ovf) on an area of more than 228,000 hectares in bavaria.

This commitment is also noticeable in the district of kitzingen and its cultural landscape. Farmers say z.B. Intercrops, which protect the soil during the winter and help build humus. Wild animals such as rabbits and deer can often be seen on these flats, where they find food and shelter in the cold season.

With around 158,000 hectares, intercropping is the number one ecological priority area in terms of acreage. But through greening, farmers have also planted more than 27,000 hectares of fallow land, which is often tilled with blood mixtures. In addition, there are about 2000 kilometers of marginal strips along waterways, field and forest edges.

Greening had brought a welcome increase in protein crops – such as alfalfa, field beans, peas and soybeans – whose volume had soared by 70 percent since greening was introduced. "It’s a shame that the eu is going to kill this boom from 2018," the release quotes BBV county chairman alois kraus as saying, referring to the future ban on using pesticides on these flats if needed. Many farmers will not want to take on this yield risk when growing these native protein feeds.

Kitzingen farmers are unhappy about a statement made by the european court of auditors on december 12. December: in a special report, the latter had stated that greening had hardly any ecological effect. "I would be happy to invite these EU employees on a ride through our county and show them the opposite on the spot," said BBV county chairman alois kraus.

The cultural room of the synagogue also provided an acoustically ideal setting for jorg kaiser’s "kaiser’s schmarren" – and he felt right at home among the "old cousins", as he remarked in dialect, right from the start of his program. Frankish cheerfulness at its best.

First, kaiser turned a little bit to the customs and uses and led over to the current season with the christmas markets, whereby he took up a topic, which provides here particularly in the families for talking material and need for discussion: the "christmas tree purchase". The experiences in a christmas tree nursery, when all efforts are made to arouse the incentive to buy one of these little trees, are already precious. Afterwards, the audience had a great time listening to the comments of the family members – often with their own memories and experiences – about the christmas tree when it was finally put up.

With the single sentence "what should I give you as a present??", which comes up again and again in already regularity, then everything was said to the christmas gifts. Jorg kaiser put himself in the role of a man who has set his sights on ladies’ underwear as the special christmas surprise, accompanying his male companion through the shopping world with its many experiences and comments.

Apt also the transition to a prominent festival , the frankische kirchweih , whereby jorg kaiser once described the impressions during the visit of the members , which one naturally wanted to get rid of quickly again. "I’m glad you were here," was the striking phrase, as it were, to somehow give the "farewell" a friendly ending after all.

From cyclists to weeds

Of course, the november season offered the opportunity to evoke many memories and thoughts. Obviously also the 6. January, jorg kaiser highlighted "drinking heavily" at a stammtisch evening and then described an everyday family life. His hair stands on end when he himself visits a pub and witnesses a guest at the next table ordering a "non-alcoholic sour radler"; his comment: "a beer mixed with water."

To all this also the impressions of the father’s day fitted and as jorg kaiser a french polterabend and the everyday topic of the "unkrautzupffen" with the garden owners illuminated. Very topical also his comments on self-driving cars and the frequently read stickers "we also brake for animals", and, brand-new, the possibility to order a "sex-robot" on the internet.

The corona pandemic, which, as he so nuchternly noted, was not only a problem for the artists, but also for everyone else, was also a topic of discussion. Therefore, at this point, his friendly shout to his audience: "it’s nice that you have come up from the sofa again after one and a half years."He also tried to characterize with some cheerful episodes, how the leisure activities of the population, of course also of the "altenkuschter", as he added, from walking to yoga to creative duck feeding, took place during this time. Even the social games known for generations, such as the "human do not argue", once again gained their place and in addition the comments of the grandfather to the grandchildren: "one must ah am mol lose konna."

School, work and, of course, leisure time were not to be missed either, for example, when going to the sauna, the nuchterne remark from the middle of the family: "for sweating a’ still spend money."Nevertheless, jorg kaiser’s easy dessert also contained much of the french cheerfulness and he therefore gave his audience the well-meant advice at the end: "just slow down a bit and relax, then we will also manage the coming time again".

White balloons as far as the eye can see. One balloon after another rises into the gray november sky on this thursday morning at the school center. The women's hang-outs carry an important message: for tolerance, equality, freedom, and against prejudice, exclusion and forgetting! The balloons have quotes from sophie scholl and dietrich bonhoeffer attached to them, as well as very personal lines from their senders, the students from different grades and types of school.

Two of them are sabrina and lea. The two eleven-year-olds attend the siegmund-loewe secondary school. They each chose a quote from the two people who were victims of the nazi regime and attached it to their balloons. On the back of the card, the women of kronach have written what peace means to them personally.

"That you don't bully anyone"

Both have chosen the same theme. "For me, peace means that you don't bully anyone", sabrina explains. Lea also wishes that everyone gets along well with each other and that mobbing no longer takes place. The two girls think the balloon campaign is very good. "Because it is important to remember and so that this does not happen again", do you think.

Sabrina and lea know the terrible events of the reichspogromnacht. Many other schools of their age or from other grades do not have the historical day at hand, or at least not immediately.

"Many bring with them the 9. November first associated the fall of the wall and wondered why it didn't become a holiday.", female EJA education officer andy fischer, who is sure that such "walls are still present in many minds in remembrance of the reichspogromnacht. It is all the more meaningful and important to remember the night of the national socialist pogroms every year. This is especially true this year after the outcry following the federal elections. "Back then, too, the "seizure of power" began insidiously, he appeals.

It's about communicating values

The joint action of the BDKJ and the youth spiritual center is not about constantly putting the finger in the wound. In his opinion, this does not help – especially with children and young people of this age. Here, in a different kind of dialogue, they try to teach the young people tolerance, humanity and cooperation. This is done by first attracting attention.

"For example, we were also able to hand out female roses – symbolic of the scholl siblings", explains fischer. In the end, however, it was decided to use balloons in this color. Fischer hopes that if the schoolchildren take them back to the classroom, a discussion will ensue, or the teachers will point out the special nature of the date.
Janina strohlein, who currently directs the youth spiritual center, is also convinced of the sense and necessity of the action. As she explains, some of the students had not yet dealt with the topic in detail in school. Others already knew, but perhaps did not necessarily think about it today. We want to reach all of them. But it is not only the date that is to be remembered. Rather, they also wanted to be a source of food for thought.

A different action every year

The action of the federation of german catholic youth (BDKJ), deanery association kronach/teuschnitz, exists since 2012. In the first year, they hung up large banners at schools and also in the city. An ecumenical commemoration with the two churches also took place in the synagogue in kronach. 2103 the young people distributed appropriate poster stands in kronach. In 2014, the day was commemorated by placing "sacrifices" in the city center of kronach put up foil-straw stickers on various footpaths or roads – symbolic of what happens when you kick human rights with the proverbial foot. In 2015, questions such as "how would you feel, … If you were tortured today? …. If you were robbed of your life today?, all day on the radio. Last year, a "wall against forgetting" was erected at the school center – also in cooperation with the youth spiritual center, what the schulmbachers could write their own headlines and thoughts about.

This year, the people decided to launch a balloon campaign on the theme of "seeing-thinking-acting – against forgetting", at which andy fischer and janina strohlein were almost overrun. These had picked out nine statements in advance of sophie scholl and dietrich bonhoeffer. The students were able to choose the slogan that most appealed to them and to think about what peace means to them. The cards then rose into the air with the balloons. The action took place until early afternoon at the school center, then on the marienplatz. A grant was available through the federal program "living democracy".

"Reichspogrom night" the night of the national socialist pogroms against the jewish people of 9. On the 10. November 1938 designated. They were a destruction organized by the nazi regime of facilities belonging to jewish citizens in the german reich. The pogroms marked the transition from the discrimination and exclusion of german jews since 1933 to the systematic persecution that culminated in the holocaust of european jews in the nazis' sphere of power barely three years later.

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