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Already in 1964/1965 today's test site has been created in its basic structure . It was used then to train in Witzenhausen tropical engineers in the use of different irrigation types, which they should maintain in their development projects.. The "irrigation demonstration unit" of the former Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture was described in detail in 1966 in the journal "Der Tropenlandwirt" ", edition 1966, by the cult. Ing. Fritz Schumacher .
The cultural at the Witzenhausen training center for tropical farmers reported. In the same journal "Der Tropenlandwirt" edition1981, Prof. Dr. Peter Wolff reports about the development teaching activities in the field of Land and Water Management Engineering.
Prof. Dr. Peter Wolff, head of the Department of Irrigation and Environmental Engineering at the Department 21 (International Agriculture), gives a detailed description of his Department in a special edition of June 1988.
top view of the area from 1966
The head of the test site
cross-section
of the area from 1966