National Activities - Denmark Can New Plantations of Salix and Miscanthus be Established with Reduced Manual Labour?

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INTRODUCTION

One barrier for growing Salix and especially Miscanthus is the high cost of establishing a new plantation. The traditional way is to use cuttings for Salix and plantlets for Miscanthus. For both crops the production of material ready for planting is very labour consuming.
Even in large scale production of Salix cuttings, much handwork is needed. About half the cost of producing cuttings is labour.
Miscanthus plantlets must be made from either divided mother plants (rhizomes), or from micro-propagated material, both methods are very labour intensive. The cost of raising the plants in greenhouses also adds to the expenses.