TRIP
Innovate UK funds three-year programme to study regenerative potato commercialisation.
The TRIP programme is dedicated to exploring innovative regenerative approaches aimed at revitalising farm soil organic matter. Additionally, it focuses on finding solutions to tackle the environmental challenge posed by greenhouse gas emissions in the UK’s potato farming industry, with a particular emphasis on reducing the notable levels of CO2 and N2O emissions.
Large-scale commercial potato crops require intensive soil cultivation to prepare the seedbed and typically require levels of inputs (fertilisers, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides) in order to produce crops that meet commercial quality and tonnage requirements.
Conventional potato production’s current carbon footprint comprises: fertilisers (55%, including N2O emissions from soil application of nitrogen fertiliser), storage energy (29%), seed (9%) and transport (5%).
PROJECTS
Promising field trial results for potatoes with reduced inputs
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) released the first season’s trial results from the Innovate UK funded Transformative Reduced Input in Potatoes (TRIP) project. Emerald Research is running farm field strip trials, commercial field-scale trials and replicated pot trials for...
Encouraging healthy rooting in Potatoes
In this era of drone and precision technologies one of the most important inspection tools in the armoury is still the humble spade! When was the last time you dug down to see the result of your cultivations or, more importantly, before you culti- vated? So when is it...
Anna Cervi appointed as the TRIP project’s Formulations Chemist
Following the launch of the project titled ‘Transformative Reduced Inputs in Potatoes’, or TRIP for short, which will be funded by Innovate UK over the next three years, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) has appointed Anna Cervi as the TRIP project’s Formulations Chemist....
Innovate UK funds three year programme to study regenerative potato commercialisation
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL), a leading voice in the campaign for a holistic and sustainable approach to crop production, has been awarded another Innovate UK funded research programme following on from the recent Postcova project. In collaboration with a consortium of...