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Climate protection due to new sugar beet cultivation methods with focus on resource protection, biodiversity and reduction of herbicides (BETA-CLIMATE)
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-2021-BW-LPTPPG
Contract period: 01.01.2022
- 31.12.2024
Budget: 810,409 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: farming practice/activity, plant production and horticulture, pest/disease control, soil, climate change
The cultivation of selective catch crops before sugar beet (SB) and development of innovative Processing technology (Strip-Till, chopping, cutting) should be improved the C02 balance in sugar beet cultivation. The aim is to reach high level of ground coverage until BBCH 31-39 for multiple climate benefits. The focus is on C02-sequestration and simultaneous high level of erosion protection at heavy rainfall periods and as well as increasing soil life, biodiversity, soil fertility and water storage capacity. The development of more extensive cultivation methods offers great potential for C02 savings, which will be evaluated in terms of their C02 balance. This includes in particular the reduction of chemical-synthetic plant protection by testing biological regulation methods against weeds and pests. These methods include, in particular, the control of the Pentastiridius leporinus, which benefits from climate change and is a carrier of the existentially threatening disease SBR.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Crop Protection
