The Tasks

• carry out meetings on organic plant breeding issues
  
  
• work out a sound concept based on principles of organic agriculture as a basis for organic plant breeding
  
  
• set up organic variety trials on cereal and vegetable crops in different countries in Europe to study how they perform under different conditions
  
  
• set up research projects on organic plant breeding
  
  
• raise funds for projects and ECO-PB's work
  
  
• providing discussion paper on plant breeding issues to support the decision making process