Resilient Summer Crops
The ongoing global climate crisis has already shown serious impacts on agriculture in particular in recent times. The project aims to respond to the climate challenge by promoting the adoption of alternative crops to maize that can adapt to limiting climatic conditions such as rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.
In particular, the agronomic performances and the adaptability to climatic change impacts of summer cereals, such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and millet (Panicum miliaceum), will be evaluated with respect to the environmental conditions of specific areas and by developing low-impact agronomic techniques.
The project will conduct both plot and field trials to assess the agronomic performance and adaptability to climate change of summer cereals, such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and millet (Panicum miliaceum), evaluating their adaptability to the conditions that arise from time to time and developing low-impact agronomic techniques. An LCA analysis will also be conducted to determine and quantify the environmental impacts of maize cultivation and the cultivation of new accessions.