Company portrait HORTICONS Agricultural Advisory Services

HortiCons Agricultural Advisory Services was founded in May 2007 by graduate engineer Uwe Hornischer, consultant for fruit and vegetable production.

Since May 2008 the location of the company is in Bremen /Germany. The area of operation is in Germany, Europe and overseas.

As a consultant of many years Uwe Hornischer used his experience and contacts to offer agricultural services by HortiCons in sectors, which are demanded by the market and the agricultural structure.

The following services of HORTICONS secure production and quality of agricultural products from the field to the consumer.

Quality assurance - save fruit and vegetable on the counter of the supermarket

Auditing of farms and packing stations

Checking the conformity of the EC-regulation for organic production (EC 834/2007) on farms and at packing stations
Check of the quality control of producers and packing stations if they are able to comply with the requirements of trade chains
Risk-analysis for producers and packing stations
Residue and isotope-analysis
Agreements with producer-organizations
Presentations and assessment of producers and packing stations

Concepts for quality assurance

Development of QA-concepts to secure product quality of agricultural products
Concepts to secure the production management and optimize the personnel-management and work process
Preparing the company for the conversion to organic agriculture according to EC regulation 834/2007 and certification for Global GAP

Project-planning - realizing ideas

Project planning of greenhouse and open field projects
Business plans and investment plans
Crop planning concepts
Special techniques for organic agriculture
Contacts to specialized providers to realize innovative ideas

Agricultural advice - security in farming

Crop management and rotation plans in greenhouse and open-field crops
Calculation of organic fertilization
Advice for biological and biotechnical crop protection
Technical advice
Assistance during the cultivation period

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Dipl. Ing. hort. (FH) Uwe Hornischer
Founder of HORTICONS Agricultural Advisory Services

since 2007	HORTICONS Agricultural Advisory Services	Quality assurance Farm audits (South and middle Europe, China) Project planning (Germany, east Europe Africa) Education (Germany, Kosovo, China) Technical advice in production
since 2009	University lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück	Organic Agriculture Quality management
2002 - 2006	Advisor for specific information for organic farming	Education of farm managers Technical research for organic production
2002 - 2006	Agricultural advisor in organic horticulture	Technical advice in organic agriculture
2002 - 2003	Education as agricultural advisor	LWK Niedersachsen
1995 - 2002	Production manager in organic farms	Crop- and staff management
1990 - 1995	Study of horticulture	Fruit and vegetable production, tropical crops Plant protection, techniques
1994	Foreign project	Planning and education in horticulture Cuenca, Ecuador
1984 - 1986	Education as a gardener	plant production

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