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Miscanthus strip cultivation-Integration of perennial Miscanthus strips on arable land

Authority

Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Hesse

Contact

Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Miscanthus strip cultivation-Integration of perennial Miscanthus strips on arable land

Project description

Increasing competition for arable land requires forms of land utilisation that make production processes land-efficient and as climate-neutral as possible. The project is therefore trialling the use of Miscanthus in strip cultivation and pursuing the integration of perennial Miscanthus strips into arable farming systems in Hesse. The evergreen plants offer favourable conditions such as high drought resistance and high growth rates with high biomass and low fertiliser requirements. Data is being collected and modelled on the trial sites on three farms in Hesse in order to record important values for soil health and biodiversity and to investigate the effects on yield development and neighbouring arable land. The results should reveal strategies for efficiently and effectively integrating sustainable biomass production into proven crop rotations and opening up potential regional sales markets for Miscanthus products.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Key words

  • Supply chain, marketing and consumption
  • Arable crops

Main funding source

Rural development 2023-2027 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 127 of Reg. 2021/2115)

OG contact information

JLU Gießen, Professur für Nachwachsende Rohstoffe und Bioressourcen
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32
35392 Gießen

Phone: 0641 - 99 37410

Email: John.Clifton-Brown@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2024

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

589,173

NUTS3 CODE

DE721

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