The SCOOP project - Developing intercropping systems with camelina to increase the yield and quality parameters of local underutilized crops - is focused on innovative and diversified organic intercropping systems aimed at preserving ecosystem and agricultural land integrity, biodiversity, and food/feed security. The new intercrops will be based on camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz), a native european multi-purpose oilseed crop, with large environmental suitability and highly adaptable to organic farming, and locally selected underutilized crops.
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Differently than in previous research where multiple crop combinations have been tested in different environments, in the framework of EU projects such as REMIX, DIVERSIFARM, DIVERIMPACT, the SCOOP consortium, which owns an extensive knowledge on camelina, decided to design the intercropping systems based on this oilseed crop. On the other hand, studies on intercropping systems with camelina are extremely limited. Therefore, SCOOP will permit to expand the knowledge on this crop and its
cultivation in the intercropping system for a future up scale in Europe.
