Denmark's National Inventory Report 2005 - Submitted under the ...

7.8 Liming
Liming of agricultural soils has taken place for many years. The Danish Agricultural Advisory
Centre (DAAC) has annually published the lime consumption for agricultural purposes since 1960
(Table 7.22). DAAC are collecting data from all producers and importers. By legislation all producers
and importers are forced to have their products analysed for acid neutralisation content. The
analysis is carried out by the Danish Plant Directorate and published annually (PDIR 2004). The
published data from DAAC are corrected for acid neutralisation contents for each product and
thus given in pure CaCO 3 . For that reason there is no need to differ between lime and dolomite as
made in the guidelines, as this has already been included in the background data. The data from
DAAC includes all different products used in agriculture, including e.g. CaCO 3 from the sugar
refineries.
The amount of lime used in private gardens has been estimated from the main supplier to private
gardens. According to the company (Kongerslev Havekalk A/S, pers. comm.) they are responsible
for 80% of the sale to private gardens. Their sales figures have been used to estimate the total consumption
in private gardens. Furthermore the figures are corrected for acid neutralisation capacity
according to the data from the Danish Plant Directorate. This gives an approximate amount of
2,300 CaCO y 3 -1
in private gardens. This figure has been used for all years.
Only a very little amount of lime is applied in forests (