The cultivation of industrial crops is generally promoted and supported for non-food purposes on marginal and contaminated lands. Most of these crops are used to produce a number of value added bio-products as well as bioenergy, thus contributing to the biobased economy. The EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Sustainable industrial crops discussed possibilities of enchance the industrial crop area in Europe based on knowledge and practices developed for each plants so far. Among the many examples, the MISCOMAR and MISCOMAR + projects were also presented.

In the middle of March we did winter harvest after 6th growing season of Miscanthus cultivation at Bytom site.

From June 14 to July 9, 2021 scientists from Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia completed a month-long miscanthus gasification campaign as part of the MISCOMAR + project. The research was conducted at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

MISCOMAR+ project will be presented on FACCE SURPLUS Status Seminar of Projects of the 2nd and 3rd Call. The End-Term Meeting of FACCE SURPLUS 2nd call, the mid-term meeting of projects of FACCE SURPLUS, 3rd call and a valorisation workshop will be held from Tuesday, 28 till Wednesday, 29 September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting will be held on-line.

At the project test site in Bytom, contaminated with heavy metals, a field experiment was set up to test the impact of various agrotechnical treatments on the growth and acclimatization of miscanthus genotypes.

It's September, the growing season is coming to an end and we are currently three months after the experiment establishment. . As a part of the experimental work, we did the assessment of the plantation establishment success – counting the number of survived plants, measure of plant height and the number of shoots.