Projects

Grow Up Salicornia - Salt Plants from Saxony-Anhalt

Authority

Ministerium für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

Federal State

Saxony-Anhalt

Contact

Leipziger Straße 58
39112 Magdeburg

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Grow Up Salicornia - Salt Plants from Saxony-Anhalt

Project description

The aim of the innovation project "Salt Plants from Saxony-Anhalt" is to test the organic cultivation of salt-tolerant plants (such as glassworts and sea aster) for a use as foodstuff. Salt plants are adapted to growth in soils that are rich in salt. Natural sites for salt-tolerant vegetation in Germany are e.g. coastal areas. However, there are also natural inland salt depositions. Nearby Staßfurt in Salzlandkreis, Sayony-Anhalt, saline water (brine), stemming from ancient marine sources, reaches the surface and deposits. Its suitability as a nutrient and water source for the cultivation of salt-tolerant plants is tested within the project. The objective is to spare scarce freshwater resources. Furthermore, by-products from pot-ash mining and table salt production are tested as a nutrient basis for the cultivation of salt-tolerant plants. Thus, so far unused resources are introduced to food production.

In order to be able to monitor and control the cultivation of sensitive salt plants, cultivation takes place under greenhouse conditions. The aim is to gather important agronomic experience concerning the cultivation of salt-tolerant plants.

 

Final report

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

Results focusing on practiceorientation

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

Key words

  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity and nature
  • Food security, safety, quality, processing and nutrion
  • Supply chain, marketing and consumption

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

Ken Jork Dohrmann
Jean-Burger-Straße 3
39112 Magdeburg

Phone: 015771410121

Email: ken.dohrmann@outlook.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Land owner
  • Forester
  • Advisor
  • Researcher
  • Industry
  • Retailer
  • Wholesaler
  • Climate/environment/nature organisation or agency
  • Press/media collaborator
  • Civil servant
  • Student

Begin of project

2020

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

639,161

NUTS3 CODE

DEE03 Magdeburg

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