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Presentation of CREFF results to farmers - 08/03/2012

The technical results born from the CREFF project will be presented to the farmers involved in the project in April 4th, 2012 in Kraichtal, Germany.

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ERA-Net Bioenergy final meeting - 17/02/2012

The ERA-Net Bioenergy final meeting for SRC call 2008 was held in Helsinki, Finland, in February 2012. Results of the three finishing SRC projects (BREDNET-SRC, RATING-SRC, and CREFF) were presente...

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CREFF recommandations for farmers - 17/02/2012

Some recommandations to help farmers to successfully install their SRC plantations are listed below. They are extracted from the general conclusions of the CREFF final report.

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ERA-Net project CREFF

03 march 2009

Besides the large potentials and opportunities, the establishment and cultivation of SRC is connected with several constraints and barriers – especially in the economics of the plantations. While most of the research results available have been obtained for medium to good sites and the presumptions of a large field size for the SRC-plantations, this project will focus on unfavourable sites and small field sizes at scattered locations.

The main objective is the successful implementation of cost-efficient and consumer-oriented SRC-value-chains in regions with unfavourable conditions. The research project covers all process steps of the SRC-value chain and is structured in five work packages (WP).
  The development of strategies allowing a major cost reduction and a higher efficiency shall be achieved by an innovative approach to initialize intensive and early cooperation between producers and consumers. Inside these co-operations, the SRC-production will concentrate on the requirements of industrial consumers. Based on the known value chain structures all major processes like the production (species-site matching, spacing, rotation), harvest, logistics and conditioning of SRC-products are streamlined.