Risks and Opportunities of Current and Future Maize Production
What the buyer wrote
Government policy aims to achieve at least 15% of energy from renewable sources by 2020, including energy from waste. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a proven technology that can convert food waste into energy and its development is being supported by a range of incentives. Defra has encouraged the development of farm AD units to improve the use of farmyard manures and slurries, however the low output from these sources means that they are co-digested with purpose grown feedstock such as maize. The Defra June 2014 land use survey indicates that 29kha of maize was grown for bioenergy in England (0.6% of total crop area), an estimated doubling of the area since 2013. The area of maize is likely to…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Risks and Opportunities of Current and Future Maize Production
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 6 Jan 2015
- Work ends
- 7 Sep 2015
- Kind of work
- Waste and environment, Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Emma Roberts was the named contact on this notice.