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AFBI supports research projects on crop health. Current projects include 'New plant defence genes : their identification, characterisation and application' and 'Management of diseases and weeds of cereal crops grown under organic conditions'.

The ANSWER project: Agricultural Need for Sustainable Willow Effluent Recycling is a project investigating the use of willow plants for the bioremediation of effluent.

Rural Proofing in Northern Ireland: An overview and recommendations on guidance, implementation and governance

This section aims to provide up-to-date data on coastal water quality and meteorology acquired from a network of remotely moored monitoring stations around the Northern Irish coastline that telemeter data to a base station at AFBI, Belfast.

Various measures are available to control pests of mushroom production including physical exclusion, biological control and chemical insecticides.

Scientific Projects : Protection of freshwater quality.

Project objective: This proposed project will develop a number of aspects and evaluate the efficacy of lactobacilli strains which have been isolated as potential probiotics.

Under the Nitrates Action Programme regulations, farmers are restricted to a total farm limit of 170 kg/ha/year of organic nitrogen which limits the number of animals farms can carry, particularly pig units. One possible solution is to separate the slurry and transport the nutrients in the solids to e.g. arable farms where required. The liquid fraction is easily utilized for irrigation, injection or trailing-shoe application.