With the aim of raising awareness of the benefits of growing camelina and implementing conservation agriculture on their farms, Camelina Company España (4CE-MED partner) is developing an agronomic trial in collaboration with IMIDRA (Madrid Institute for Rural Development, Food and Agricultural Research) at Finca El Encín, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
The agronomic trial includes different seeding techniques for camelina in semi-arid zones like the central area of Spain. This trial is divided in two different seeding dates and combines direct seeding in a non-cultivated soil and tillage seeding in a cultivated soil with broadcast and row seeding. Each of the 32 plots have an area of 30 square meters.
No_tillingBoadcast
Photo credit: Camelina Company España
Autor:David Mostaza Colado
No_tilling___Rows
Photo credit: Camelina Company España
Autor:David Mostaza Colado
Minimal___Boadcast
Photo credit: Camelina Company España
Autor:David Mostaza Colado
Minimal___Rows
Photo credit: Camelina Company España
Autor:David Mostaza Colado
The first seeding date was performed on December 18th 2020, while the second date was on February 19th 2021, both with direct drilling machinery.
Finca El Encín, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Photo credit: Camelina Company España
Autor:David Mostaza Colado
In this way, Camelina Company Spain aims to define, optimize and test under real operational conditions the locally tailor-made 4CE-MED solutions to adopte camelina as a cash cover crop, assuring short-term economic profit to Mediterranean farmers. This work is performed within WP2 of the 4CE-MED project.