{"id":25178,"date":"2015-03-26T03:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T02:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:00:49","slug":"cover-agriculture-to-industry-with-elephant-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cover-agriculture-to-industry-with-elephant-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover agriculture to industry with elephant grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the farmers in the green business were involved in the making can be read in the article Akker Innovating with biobased crops<\/a>. It was the Miscanthusgroep who was looking for land for large-scale trial cultivation of elephant grass under a closed Green Deal. So they turned to the shareholders of Schiphol Trade Park where a high durability ambition ‘applies.<\/p>\n

‘Classic’ and ‘bio-based’ crops<\/h3>\n

The project in which 350 acres of farmland is transformed in 30 years into a ‘innovative and green business park’ offers according to the project space ‘crops that fit into the environment of the green circular economy’. Besides elephant grass that biobased crops like hemp, canola, quinoa and flax. Further cultivate members Miscanthusgroep there ‘classic farming products for the local market. The article can be read on the activities of the partners in the project even more unfold. Think of so-called material farms.<\/p>\n

Ganzenwerend and soundproofing<\/h3>\n

It also explains why elephant grass an ideal crop for cultivation around Schiphol. “The plant reduces CO2 absorbs sound and works ganswerend because geese do not like this crop ‘explains Gertjan Petrie – participant of the Miscanthusgroep out. Especially the latter problems brought Miscanthus in sight. The crop could be an alternative for a variety of measures and solutions to the problems around Schiphol ‘who went cropland at the expense of many hectares’ can be read in the article Miscanthus in the polder<\/a>. In this comprehensive article on the site Topos is further discussed the efforts to make profitable cultivation and other advantages of the crop.<\/p>\n

Bedding, fuel and cellulose<\/h3>\n

Field light some pluses too far short. The crop after harvest is applicable for many bio-based purposes. So it is used as bedding in animal husbandry: see also the Guide Miscanthus cultivation of the practice network “Sleep Soft ‘- a network that went looking for alternative substrates for cubicles and freewheeling stables. Furthermore Miscanthus can serve as fuel for wood stoves and would cellulose-rich plant (in the future) may be possible raw material for plastic or kerosene. More information about the crop is in the Wageningen UR file Elephant Grass – Miscanthus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the farmers in the green business were involved in the making can be read in the article Akker Innovating with biobased crops. It was the Miscanthusgroep who was looking for land for large-scale trial cultivation of elephant grass under a closed Green Deal. So they turned to the shareholders of Schiphol Trade Park where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[9555,100],"class_list":["post-25178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-schiphol-trade-park","supplier-universitaet-wageningen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}