FEPP – Fruchtfolgen mit Energiepflanzen als ein Beitrag zur Reduktion von phytomedizinischen Risiken und des Pflanzenshutzmitteleinsatzes Ackerbau

Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Bärbel Gerowitt

Förderung: BMELV

Kooperation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Zeitraum: 2012-2015

Einordung:
Institut: Professur Phytomedizin

Projektbeschreibung:
The production and use of renewable resources plays a notable role in German agriculture. The cultivated land for renewable raw materials has climbed enormously from the year 2000 (ca. 700,000 ha) to 2012 (ca. 2,500,000 ha). A large part of this land has been used for the growth of energy crops with wheat, corn and rapeseed crops having the highest significance proportional to the area. It can be concluded that these particular energy crops result from economic attractiveness. Furthermore, they also demonstrate a common occurrence in agriculture of tight crop rotations or monocropping. The transformation of such crop rotation methods from a crop health view is complicated and also associated with risks and outcomes difficult to assess and foresee. Little is known about how the intensity of specialized energy crop production affects crop health risks and crop protection. The scope of the FEPP research project will investigate the different potentials energy crop rotation has on crop health risks. Consequently, the opportunity also presents itself to demonstrate crop health risks from short crop rotations and monocropping, and from that derive a relevant conclusion for an improvement of the crop cultivation structure.





Key Points
##Influence of energy crop rotations on the thickness and composition of Segetalflora as it affects the population dynamic development of an individual weed species
##Influence of energy crop rotations on the necessary use of herbicides
##Influence of energy crop rotations on the emergence of stem based diseases in wheat and corn as it affects the primary inoculation in soil and the infections pressure
##Quantification of the regional suitability of energy crop rotations through spatial analysis of crop rotation systems

Bearbeiter: Thomas Kunze, Christoph Flucke

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