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Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 4: Crop cultivation experiments optimizing raw material performance and yield in catch crop cultivation with previous agricultural respective cascade use of sorghum as an inter crop (Sorghum III)
Project
Project code: 22001416
Contract period: 15.04.2016
- 14.04.2019
Budget: 295,865 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Sorghum millets have a high biomass potential and are – as maize – C4-crops. Sorghum is not susceptible to the Western corn rootworm and therefore its cultivation is interesting in regions with high appearance of this pest. Sorghum originates of the subtropics and has, similar to maize about 50 years ago, a low cool tolerance, which hinders the cultivation in parts of Germany. Also, some uncertainties concerning the production technique still do exist so that the promising potential of sorghum is often not exploited in the agricultural practice.
Depending on the site-specific conditions, successful cultivars are required to offer the best possible combination of yield and quality, resulting in high methane yield per hectare.
Resulting are precise recommendations for farmers to help choosing the sorghum cultivars for their planned harvest regime. Sorghum as second crop and the usage of grain sorghum straw are also going to be evaluated.
Section overview
Subjects
- Renewable Resources
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)
Participating institutions
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: Sorghum III
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 1: Crop cultivation experiments optimizing biogas performance and yield as well as inventory setting
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 2: Optimizing sorghum cultivation in practice and crop cultivation on recultivation sites
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 3: Soil quality, biogas potential and economic efficiency
