Track 2‐7‐1: Seed Production, Storage, Quality, Testing, Quarantine and Marketing Systems
Description
Agroforestry is a perspective way of biomass production which combines simultaneous growing of woody plants with agricultural crops on the same area for different purposes (Reisner et al., 2007). Agroforestry like multifunctional agriculture has the objective of promoting economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable rural development (Leakey, 2012). It is more sustainable than the monocultures of forestry or agriculture separately. Agroforestry can be an appropriate technology in the areas with fragile ecosystems and subsistence farming.
The main advantage of this technology is improved efficiency of resource utilization and smaller competition of plants for nutrients (Bardule et al., 2013). Agroforestry has the ability to provide short-term economic benefits while the farmer is waiting for traditional long-term forestry products.
In the system of agroforestry perennial herbaceous plants can be successfully cultivated along with fast-growing trees for different purposes. There is an opportunity to place various herbaceous crops species for seed production, including crosspollinated crops in the cultivation of which it is important to comply with spatial isolation. Perennial grasses and legumes have been widely used as fodder crops for centuries and there has been an increasing interest in the use of them as energy crops because they have many economic and ecological advantages. Both woody and herbaceous crops need fertiliser for increasing productivity and it is a good opportunity to use various by-products for this purpose in the agroforestry system. The investigation was performed on the seed production of herbaceous plants cultivars grown in columns alternated with aspen rows and fertilized with residual materials - wood ash and wastewater sludge that contain chemical elements with considerable fertilizing value.
Citation
Rancane, Sarmite; Lazdina, Dagnija; Berzina, Peteris; and Stesele, Vija, "Seed Yield of Herbaceous Crops under Agroforestry System" (2020). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 16.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/23/2-7-1/16
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Seed Yield of Herbaceous Crops under Agroforestry System
Agroforestry is a perspective way of biomass production which combines simultaneous growing of woody plants with agricultural crops on the same area for different purposes (Reisner et al., 2007). Agroforestry like multifunctional agriculture has the objective of promoting economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable rural development (Leakey, 2012). It is more sustainable than the monocultures of forestry or agriculture separately. Agroforestry can be an appropriate technology in the areas with fragile ecosystems and subsistence farming.
The main advantage of this technology is improved efficiency of resource utilization and smaller competition of plants for nutrients (Bardule et al., 2013). Agroforestry has the ability to provide short-term economic benefits while the farmer is waiting for traditional long-term forestry products.
In the system of agroforestry perennial herbaceous plants can be successfully cultivated along with fast-growing trees for different purposes. There is an opportunity to place various herbaceous crops species for seed production, including crosspollinated crops in the cultivation of which it is important to comply with spatial isolation. Perennial grasses and legumes have been widely used as fodder crops for centuries and there has been an increasing interest in the use of them as energy crops because they have many economic and ecological advantages. Both woody and herbaceous crops need fertiliser for increasing productivity and it is a good opportunity to use various by-products for this purpose in the agroforestry system. The investigation was performed on the seed production of herbaceous plants cultivars grown in columns alternated with aspen rows and fertilized with residual materials - wood ash and wastewater sludge that contain chemical elements with considerable fertilizing value.
