BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

agriculture.
Later HELCOM recommendations deal with more specific categories of losses
from agriculture. The categories are:
farm waste discharges; (Recommend. Wll)
leaching of nitrogen, mainly nitrate; (Recommend. 13/10)
leaching, run-off and erosion losses of phosphorus; (Recommend. U/10)
ammonia volatilisation; (Recommend. 1317, 13/8 and 14/4)
pesticides; (Recommend. 8/Z and X3/13)
The Danish approach to handle the mentioned categories is described below.
DANISH AGRICUT.,TURE AND THE ENVIRONMEWI’.
Introduction.
The following description will give you an idea of, what has been done in
Denmark over the past 30 years in order to reduce the pollution from agriculture.
About 30 years ago the first environmental regulation concerning agricultural
production was introduced. Rules were made for placing and construction of
stables and manure storage facilities, though there was no public concern about
pollution from agriculture.
So until lo-12 years ago the most important goal for agricultural production was
to produce large quantities of good quality products without much regard for the
resulting impact on the environment.
Over the past 30 years production has gone up with 50% and there has almost
been a doubling of total fertilizer input to Danish arable soil, causing signifi-
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