Energy Crop
To integrate or to segregate food crop and energy crop cultivation at the landscape scale? Perspectives on biodiversity conservation in agriculture in Europe
... and energy systems on economically marginal land, however, need to be discussed against the issues of mar- ginal yields from those lands together with the questions of how they can interact with HNV farming ...
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Parametres of energy crop biomass handling
... Abstract: Energy crop handling can be performed with standard handling machinery equipped with suitable adaptors. The authors describe and compare various types of handling of wood and herb energy ...
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Nitrogen conversion and nitrous oxide hot spots in energy crop cultivation
... in the microbial community structure as reported by Jackson et al. (2003), thus producing large N 2 O emissions at the beginning of the crop season. The spatial variability is mainly caused by heterogeneity in the ...
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Productivity of Coppiced Sycamore as a Potential Short Rotation Wood-Energy Crop (SRWC).
... Wood is converted to bioenergy in may ways, including burning wood directly, extracting ethanol from the wood to make so-called ligncellulosic fuel, and by gasification, making wood highly efficient to burn (Naik et al. ...
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Combined free range piglets and energy crop production: Impact on nitrate leaching
... By using the results of this study and experience from a paddock design by Horsted et al. (2012), we could suggest a type of paddock design that will maximize the potential N uptake by trees in willow zone. This is since ...
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Optimal combinable and dedicated energy crop scenarios for marginal land
... Given the presence of own farm machinery a more graduated cropping pattern occurs as relative crop yield penalties.. are assumed, and typically the optimal crop mix contains a more varie[r] ...
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Biotechnological approaches to determine the impact of viruses in the energy crop plant Jatropha curcas
... plants. The occurrence of the Begomoviruses further poses a challenge in the elimination strategy of CMG in field grown cassava as a result of increase in inoculum from different hosts, and calls for an elimination ...
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Assessment of gross calorific value of crop and bio-energy residues
... This study assessed the gross calorific values (GCV) of crop and bio-energy residues. In addition, it assessed the calorific values of sweet sorghum to clarify its potential as energy crop in ...
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Bioeconomy as a new S-curve for Thai economy
... renewable energy project and energy crop farming for a community through the joint ven- ture between the private sector and the people in the community, (2) finalizing a clear bioeconomy roadmap for ...
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Economic effects of the biochar application on rice supply in Taiwan
... and crop yield increase under the conventional bio-power, ethanol and ...the crop cultivation patterns, the study further employs a nonparametric kernel regression model to forecast the increased benefi ts ...
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Sustainability, overall and process efficiency of energy crops
... The crop scientist focuses his research on high quantity and quality of yield based on a sustainable ...the crop scientist’s approach as maximisation of photosynthesis’ ...for energy accounting based ...
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Nitrous oxide emissions associated with land use change to bioenergy crops Miscanthus x giganteus and Phalaris arundinacea
... Chapter 4: stable isotope study on N cycling processes in plant-soil systems under grassland and energy crop covers: Miscanthus and Reed canarygrass.. The effect of crop cover and soil p[r] ...
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Not all low carbon energy pathways are environmentally “no regrets” options
... for energy crop production was estimated at 108kha, ...bioenergy crop production under the different scenarios for crop yield and composition, as a percentage of total UK ...indigenous ...
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A Multi-Criteria Assessment of Energy Crops for Biogas Production
... of energy crops for biogas production the computer simulation model was ...of energy crop production by the farmer, the sub model of biogas production from energy crops and the sub model ...
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Crop biomass production and its utilization in Punjab: Some energy considerations
... In order to estimate the surplus of biomass in Punjab the consumption based on the sample farmers has been deducted from the total production. It is worth mentioning here that the consumption constitutes fodder and fuel. ...
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through Soil Moisture Conservation Practices Enhance Crop, Water, Energy Productivity
... inclusion of winter season crops after rainy season maize co-culture with cowpea under organic 169.. rainfed condition.[r] ...
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The Land Use Consequences of Woody Biomass with More Stringent Climate Mitigation Scenarios
... There remain some important topics to study in this field. First, the current analysis does not include forest residues (branches and leaves normally left at the forest site) in biomass supply. Because woody biomass is ...
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Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK
... year crop lifetime are notably ...mature crop, and overwinter litter drop in Miscanthus is reasonably consistent at around 30–35% of aboveground biomass production (Lewandowski et ...
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Energy Utilization in Crop and Dairy Production in Organic and Conventional Livestock Production Systems
... The fertilizer levels vary between the studied farms but are not on average different from normal practice on Danish dairy farms, and the average 93 kg N ha-’ spring-sown grain used in t[r] ...
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Performance investigation of energy transport media as influenced by crop based properties
... Todays concern of protecting the environment has encouraged the research and the use of environmental friendly products. This project initiates the experimental investigation of using palm based oil as hydraulic fluid. ...
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