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- November 2010:
Start of building activities for the biogas plant near Wolnzach, which is situated in the Hallertau, the biggest hop growing region in the world. HVG is one of the shareholders of the company that establishes a plant, using chopped hop vines for the production of biogas. The vines are a waste-product during hop harvest after separating the hop cones from the plant. So far, the chopped vines have been taken out into the hop fields again as fertilizer.

The investment volume of the biogas plant is more than 20 million Euro. With this plant, one third of the hop vines in the Hallertau can be used for the production of energy. After fermentation in the plant, the products are used as fertilizers in the farmers’ hop fields.

August 2010:
HVG’s financial support program for the installment of irrigation measures has been successfully terminated. HVG introduced a program for the installment of irrigation in hop fields in 2008, which run until July 2010. Now, irrigation equipment is installed for more than 3.000 hectares of the German hop acreage. With these measures, we managed to increase the security of supply considerably, especially in years with too little precipitation. At the same time, the competitive position of the German hop growing regions could be further strengthened.

July 2010:
Introduction of HVG program for energy-saving measures: For the years 2010 – 2013, HVG has introduced a program for the promotion of energy-saving measures in the drying process of hops during harvest. This program is intended to cut costs of hop production as well as reduce the impact on the environment.