Agroecological and agroeconomic study of the system strip cropping and development of guidelines
Abstract
The project strip cropping is an agricultural innovation project in Hofkirchen im Traunkreis, which is implemented by three organic farmers together with the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna and the Research Institute HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. The aim of the project is to create an arable farming system with "strip cropping", which meets the challenges of the current regional and global problems in the area of the decline of biodiversity, the decline of soil fertility and the increase in weather extremes. Unlike monoculture farming, strip cropping involves growing multiple crops within the same field in contiguous strips. Each crop is "moved on" to the adjacent strip each year. This form of land management increases the resilience and stability of the production system and provides a much more diverse and attractive habitat for a variety of insects and other wildlife. The project will investigate how strip cropping can be implemented in practice and what effects occur in terms of yield and quality of the harvested products, health of the plants, biodiversity on the field and resilience of the system.
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Project staff
Ronnie Walcher
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ronnie Walcher
ronnie.walcher@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-83315
Project Leader
01.05.2022 - 30.04.2025