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    This document discusses short rotation coppice willow as an energy and environmental crop. It is environmentally friendly and can create new job opportunities while utilizing unused agricultural land. Willow is easy and inexpensive to plant through cuttings and has extremely rapid growth, allowing it to be harvested efficiently. It is a good source for the fuel market and can also be used as a biofilter to uptake heavy metals from the soil. The document outlines the cultivation process for short rotation coppice willow, including soil preparation, planting, treatment after planting, and winter harvesting. It also describes the Selice project in Sweden that monitored the growth of various willow cultivars over time.

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    This document discusses short rotation coppice willow as an energy and environmental crop. It is environmentally friendly and can create new job opportunities while utilizing unused agricultural land. Willow is easy and inexpensive to plant through cuttings and has extremely rapid growth, allowing it to be harvested efficiently. It is a good source for the fuel market and can also be used as a biofilter to uptake heavy metals from the soil. The document outlines the cultivation process for short rotation coppice willow, including soil preparation, planting, treatment after planting, and winter harvesting. It also describes the Selice project in Sweden that monitored the growth of various willow cultivars over time.

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    Short Rotation Coppice Willow: Salix Viminalis L

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    This document discusses short rotation coppice willow as an energy and environmental crop. It is environmentally friendly and can create new job opportunities while utilizing unused agricultural land. Willow is easy and inexpensive to plant through cuttings and has extremely rapid growth, allowing it to be harvested efficiently. It is a good source for the fuel market and can also be used as a biofilter to uptake heavy metals from the soil. The document outlines the cultivation process for short rotation coppice willow, including soil preparation, planting, treatment after planting, and winter harvesting. It also describes the Selice project in Sweden that monitored the growth of various willow cultivars over time.

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    Short Rotation Coppice Willow

    Salix Viminalis L.
    Importance of using
    biomass for energy
    purposes
    Willow as an energy
    and environmental
    crop
    Cultivation of SRC
    Willow
    Proect Selice
    Inde!
    Importance of using biomass for
    energy purposes

    "nvironmentaly
    friendly

    Creation of new ob
    opportunities

    #lternative for unused


    agricultural soil
    Willow as an energy
    and environmental
    crop

    "nergy crop$
    %
    "asy and ine!pensive to plant
    &cuttings'
    %
    "!tremely rapid growth
    %
    (arvested using efficient machinery
    %
    )ood product on the fuel mar*et

    "nvironmental crop$
    %
    +se as a bio,filter
    %
    Capable of ta*ing up heavy metals
    &cadmium'
    Cultivation of SRC Willow
    -. Soil preparation before
    planting &first year'
    .. Planting &first year'
    /. 0reatment after planting
    &first year'
    1. (arvesting during the
    winter period
    Preparation of planting material
    2echanical planting
    - month after planting
    3 month after planting
    /,year stems
    (arvesting
    4. ton per hectare
    Proect Selice

    #rea$ 3-55 m
    .

    "stablishment$ 2ay .556

    Cultivars$ 0ora7 Sven7


    )udrun7 0ordis7 Inger

    2easurements , every two


    wee*s$
    ,
    stem diameter7
    ,
    stem height7
    ,
    number of shoots

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