Miscanthus cultivation to commercialize in Georgia

There are many states in the United States growing Miscanthus for biofuel purposes. Georgia has now joined the cluster to produce Miscanthus as their energy crop. This massive project proposes to build three plants, each of them having a capacity to multiply into tens of thousands of plants progressively. The reason for choosing Georgia is that they provide favorable climatic conditions for the cultivation of Miscanthus. Earlier, Georgia was chosen for commercial production of sugarcane as well. Apart from the climatic conditions, they also have a history of high-quality crop propagation.

The BiUS Company, heading this project is a joint venture between BICAL- a Miscanthus producer in Europea and Pyramid farms- a Miscanthus propagator in Canada. They have planned to cultivate Miscanthus all over Georgia. Moreover, their big focus is on certain areas which they believe to have great potential for large-scale biomass production. Special arrangements have also been made for harvest, storage ,transportation and conversion of this promising energy crops.Well,another highlight of this fuel crop is that it does not require any fertilizers and pesticides and it expects to yield twice the amount of fuel than that of switch grass. Many efforts are underway to accomplish this challenging task.

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