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Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau
Rhineland-Palatinate
Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz
Website: External link to the authority
Permanent living mulch in agriculture
The planned project can be described as establishing permanent living mulch in agriculture through various crop rotations with winter and summer crops on three different agricultural holdings in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project is about the practical establishment and further development of an agricultural cultivation system, that so far only exists rudimentary but which has not been proved yet in the practice (process innovation). In the field study, the transition to direct sowing is being examined (with no tillage of the arable land except by the sowing machine itself). The aim is to consistently save resources such as water and fuel, to reduce the output of pesticides, especially in the herbicide sector, to a minimum and to use legumes as a nitrogen collector. This also happens given the fact of intensified legal requirements for practical agriculture with regard to fertilization and plant protection. A wide variety of parameters relating to soil, insects, plants and water are continually sampled, evaluated and compared with the usual variant over the entire test period in the different plots. A business analysis rounds off the investigation.
Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.
Rural development 2014-2020
CM Büro- und Dienstleistungsservice
Hauptstraße 18
56414 Zehnhausen
Phone: Tel. 06435/408060
Email: chr.mittermeier@t-online.de
2019
ongoing
300,000