Projektsuche

BiSoN – Bee-friendly New Dual-purpose Sorghum Varieties

Authority

Hessisches Ministerium für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt, Weinbau, Forsten, Jagd und Heimat

Federal State

Hesse

Contact

Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

BiSoN – Bee-friendly New Dual-purpose Sorghum Varieties

Project description

Sorghum has potential as a drought-tolerant alternative to maize for silage production and as a summer flowering crop. However, this potential is currently only partly utilised because existing varieties are not sufficiently adapted to regional conditions and requirements. At the same time, farms in Hesse face the challenge of adapting to heat and drought while promoting biodiversity. Pollinators experience food shortages during the summer, as flowering crops with high forage value are still not widely grown in Hesse. BiSoN aims to develop stress-tolerant, locally adapted dual-purpose sorghum varieties and bee-friendly variety mixtures. Increased pollen production and extended flowering periods are intended to combine versatile utilisation with improved climate adaptation. The mixtures will be scientifically assessed with regard to their benefits for pollinators, agronomic suitability and economic viability and tested together with participating farms.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Keywords

Genetic resource
Water
Biodiversity and nature
Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)
AKIS, incl. advice, training, on-farm demo, interactive innovation projects
Arable crops
Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
Competitiveness/new business models

Main funding source

Rural development 2023-2027 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 127 of Reg. 2021/2115)

OG contact information

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen – Professur für Pflanzenzüchtung
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26
35392 Gießen

Phone: 0641 99-37421

Email: steffen.m.windpassinger@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Type of OG partners

Farmer
Advisor

Begin of project

2026

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

489,205

NUTS3 CODE

DE721 – Gießen, Landkreis