by INI | Aug 19, 2024 | News, Update Experimentation
During June and July 2024, Professor Long Li and Dr. Rui-Peng Yu organized two field trips to visit the maize/soybean intercropping experiment in Zhangye, Gansu Province, PR China, which is included as one of the meta-experiments in WP 2 in IntercropVALUES Project. In...
by INI | Aug 2, 2024 | Case Studies, News
Growing multiple crops simultaneously on the same field, the so-called “intercropping” practice has almost disappeared from our European agricultural landscapes, despite its numerous environmental, economic, and nutritional benefits. The IntercropVALUES project, which...
by INI | Jul 29, 2024 | Case Studies, CICS11, News
Intercropping can offer many potential advantages over single stand cropping systems when applied in organic farming: it optimizes the management of resources, increases agricultural biodiversity, allows better weed control, preserves the fertility of the soil and...
by INI | Jul 5, 2024 | CICS04, News
Lionel Alletto, researcher at INRAE and leader of IntercorpVALUES Co-Innovation Case Study 4, has recently participated in a local tv/online emission called (in French) C dans l’ sol (“It’s in the soil”). Yves Ferrier, from the Chamber of Agriculture and co-leader of...
by INI | Jun 25, 2024 | CICS03, News
Intercropping – growing a few crops at the same time – is a great idea. If you grow barley and peas, for example, the barley gets drip-fed ‘free’ nitrogen from the bean crop, the pea gets a scaffold to support its growth, and pollinating insects get a food source from...
by INI | Jun 10, 2024 | Case Studies, CICS07, News
IntercropVALUES project is present on Reunion Island through the involvement of two partners: eRcane and CIRAD. As part of their participation in the project, and the activities they develop in Co-Innovation Case Study (CICS) 7, they are working with 4 farmers to...
