A new research project aims to help UK farmers and growers to target Net Zero and increase crop resilience.
The £5.9 million Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping (CHCx3) will focus on four cropping options, and evaluate their potential to enhance atmospheric carbon capture and storage in the soil and crop-based products.
Further work will help boost the production and use of renewable biomaterials for fibre, textiles, and construction.
As part of a consortium of 22 industry and research partners, experts at the University of York’s Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), will focus on the development and uptake of industrial hemp as a multi-purpose crop, in partnership with Elsoms Seeds.
Workshops
The University’s Biorenewables Development Centre will conduct value-chain validation and tools-development, roadmaps and dissemination tools to be shared in multiple-stakeholder workshops.
Professor Ian Graham, Academic Director of BioYorkshire, said: “I am excited at this opportunity to build on existing specialist know-how and genetic resources in my laboratory to fast-track the development and adoption of new varieties that increase carbon capture and bio-based feedstocks for industry across the UK.”
The Centre’s ‘Knowledge Hub’ will provide resources to support the effective uptake and utilisation of crops with high carbon-capture potential, with practical outputs such as crop guides, web tools and apps available to landowners, farmers and agronomists.
Source: ac.uk
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