Title:
The SUSCACE Project - Scientific Support for Agricultural Conversion to Energy Crops
Author(s):
Pari, L., Facciotto, G., Ceotto, E.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
The Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies, acknowledging the increasing importance of the agro-energy sector, has committed significant resources by financing several research projects of national interest, with the aim of making available to the agricultural and agro-industrial entrepreneur knowledge and technologies to support the change in the organizational structure of the farm in order to foster the production of bio-energies in the agricultural sector. The SUSCACE Project (Scientific Support for Agricultural Conversion towards Energy Crops) was developed to respond to the concrete and urgent demand of research, advanced by stockholders. The project has in fact the purpose of: i) providing technical and scientific support to stakeholders, finding solutions to the problems identified by themselves; ii) making available to the farmers technological innovations strategic for the outcome of the supply chains; iii) sharing with the stakeholders of the agro-energy sector the most recent acquisitions of scientific research in order to help them in the choices of energies crops species, varieties and cultivation techniques in the different specific environment ; iv) disseminating the technologies developed by training the farmers in the new technologies utilization. The project took into consideration agronomic, technological and mechanical aspects of fast growing tree species (poplar, black locust, eucalyptus) and herbaceous crops, both oleaginous oil species (rapeseed, sunflower, brassica carinata, soybean) and ligno-cellulosic crops (common reed, sorghum from fiber, hemp). Three CREA Research Center are involved: Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food processing, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood and Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment.
Keywords:
energy crops, research projects, technological transfer
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Biomass feedstock, residues and by-products
Event:
27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1DV.3.38
Pages:
351 - 362
ISBN:
978-88-89407-19-6
Paper DOI:
10.5071/27thEUBCE2019-1DV.3.38
Price:
FREE
