Intercrop of oil seeds in sugarcane: agricultural performance and basis for crop modeling

• Grant number: 14/18912-9
• Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Regular Program Grants
• Start date: January 01, 2015
• End date: December 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Agricultural Meteorology
• Principal Investigator: Felipe Gustavo Pilau
• Grantee: Felipe Gustavo Pilau
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Fabio Ricardo Marin ; LUIZ ROBERTO ANGELOCCI ; Marcos Vinícius Folegatti

Abstract

Based on the current international high demand, the increasing demand for food, and the environmental issues related to intercropped farming system, this project aims to assess growth, development, and adaptability of canola and crambe, and propose a new farming system for intercroping oil seeds in sugarcane plantations. Experimental plots of oilseeds and sugarcane will be installed, as well as areas of intercropping sugarcane + crambe and sugarcane + canola. Additionally, meteorological measurements and soil conditions in each production system. It is believed to possible generating a new farming system especially useful in the reform areas or those unsuitable for it due to mechanized harvesting, besides adding production of oilseeds in their own sugarcane areas. In this system the cycle of annual crops happen during regrowth of ratoon. The results will be further exploited for studies on crop modeling of Crambe and Canola and sugarcane in a intercropping system. (AU)