The Mediterranean basin has long been a site of temperate fruit and nut production. Currently, new agricultural cultures like pistachio (Pistacia vera), a small tree originating from Central Asia and the Middle East, and Opuntia ficus-indica, a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant in Southern Europe, became plants with interest for large-scale production. So, In order to identify the most suitable areas to introduce those crops I would like to select the new species that are more viable economically.
Olá José
Thanks! I'm looking for information about permanent crops (mainly woody species) with fruit production and/or fiber utilization that could be sustainable in economically-depressed areas of Southern Europe. In any way some energy crops could be interesting.
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Luís
A tentative list for èermanent crops has been under scutirny for years in Sardinia. You may get infos from regionaloffices is some of the trails might be of interst for support, Refs for Arundo, eucalipt and cardoon in https://books.google.it/books?id=pHZycbhwzs4C&pg=PA423&lpg=PA423&dq=cynara+cardunculus+sardinia&source=bl&ots=xyPlpQ5CQr&sig=uUQh9ZoLs_npd6bxbcME_rQ5l1c&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk6N6GiO3LAhUDRhQKHdI6DUEQ6AEIQzAG#v=onepage&q=cynara%20cardunculus%20sardinia&f=false
I recommend you sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). It's energy crop from Africa with high biomass and dry matter yield.Because sweet sorghum requires less water and has a higher fermentable sugar content than sugarcane, which contains more crystallizable sugars, it is better suited for ethanol production than sugarcane or other sources, and sweet sorghum ethanol is cleaner than sugarcane ethanol, when mixed with gasoline.
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Hallo Luìs,
personally, I would suggest sea buckthorn (Hyppophae rhamnoides). It is a large deciduous shrub with narrow, willow-like, silvery leaves and thorny shoots. Flowers very small, yellow, followed by small, bright orange berries on female plants.
In our hilly area (Tolmezzo, 50 km North of Udine, NE Italy) some people use the berries, very high in Vitamin C, for food: for example you can prepare very tasty jams, mixed with apple.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/details?plantid=963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae_rhamnoides
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