TGS Įs /TGS BIOM – Under-crop (for cereals / maize) mixture or aftercrop as Biomass accumulation mixture

• Perennial or annual grasses and legumes, or their mixtures, usually are selected as the under-growing crop. These plants are sown in spring in winter or summer cereals or in short vegetation forage crops, maize. Under-sowing crop in winter crops is sown with stubble seed drills or with special coulter attachments. Seed drill with harrow can be used also. In the case of under-sowing crop using for cereals and maize, crop-specific herbicides should be foreseen, the cereal seed rate reduced, and nitrogen-rich fertilizers should not be used.
• Under-crop (especially when sowing in wide-interrow maize) has many useful functions – preventing erosion, preventing losing of nutrients to deeper soil layers, and preventing of contamination of groundwater. The winter-hardy components of the mixture remain alive and after the maize is harvested, the soil microorganisms have food in the autumn-winter period. Above-ground mass of the crop becomes a mulch on the soil surface. Leguminous plants accumulate additional nitrogen and provide with it the main cop as well as to soil biota.