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Permanent living mulch in agriculture

Authority

Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau

Federal State

Rhineland-Palatinate

Contact

Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Permanent living mulch in agriculture

Project description

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.

Final report

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

Key words

  • Equipment and machinery
  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Pest/disease control
  • Plant nutrients
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity and nature
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

CM Büro- und Dienstleistungsservice
Hauptstraße 18
56414 Zehnhausen

Phone: Tel. 06435/408060

Email: chr.mittermeier@t-online.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Climate/environment/nature organisation or agency
  • Civil servant

Begin of project

2019

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

300,000

Link 3

NUTS3 CODE

DEB1B

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