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Dalea – Permanent living mulch in agriculture (DaLeA)
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-Rlp-2019-BVBBBDKLGM
Contract period: 01.01.2019
- 31.12.2023
Budget: 296,461 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: biologigal diversity, soil, soil coverage type, fertilization, climate change, farming equipment/ machinery, agricultural farming, plant production, pest/disease control, water
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 nitrogen collector. This also intended the given fact of more restrictive intensified legal requirements for practical agriculture with regard to fertilization and plant protection. 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). 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. The need for action arises from the personal concern of the individual members of the OG in their respective areas of activity. They are constantly confronted with the central question of the project in day-to-day business and are looking for a practical solution. The current state of research and in practice, the first approaches to the topic of live mulch have been made, but a consistent further development and investigation as in vegetable growing has so far been lacking.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Vegetable Gardening