Processors and Growers Research Organisation

Relay cropping- drilling Lentils into established winter wheat

Lentil - relay cropping:

Lentil crop is sown into an already established winter wheat crop (they are established and  grown in relay).

The objective is to increase beneficial interaction between the two crops, and also to facilitate lentil harvesting operations.

Part of the LegValue Industry case study Lentil value chain based on the PGI “Lenticchia di Altamura” (Alta Murgia, Italy)

http://www.legvalue.eu/industry-studies/lentil-value-chain-based-on-the-pgi-lenticchia-di-altamura-alta-murgia-italy/

Contact: Fernando Pellegrini 

Group of Agroecology, Institute of Life Sciences, Land Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Santa Cecilia 3, 56127 Pisa - Italy

Tel +39050883580

Email fernando.pellegrini@santannapisa.it

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