SBased on the EU Greening Program and the Green Deal, special attention is paid to the
balance of pesticides and mineral fertilisers. Diversifying crops and increasing biodiversity also
draw attention to the provisions of the Green Deal. Important results could be achieved in
interrow of agricultural plants (including maize) by growing intercrops of various species and
alternating them according to endogenous rotations. In a long term, new knowledge will allow to
create a new generation of sustainable agrocenoses for energy, increasing the biodiversity and
multifunctionality of the crop through endogenous rotation in the future. The investigations will
be carried out in 2023–2025 at the Experimental Station of Vytautas Magnus University
Agriculture Academy. The aim of the research was to create efficient rotations in maize continue
crop characterised by stability, biodiversity, and high economic efficiency. In 2023, maize will
be inter-cropped with Fabaceae family plants, in 2024, with Poaceae, in 2025, with Brassicaceae.
The hypothesis of the research states that productivity and quality of the soil and the inter-crop
productivity and phytosanitary conditions will not decrease, but probably improve when growing
inter-crops in maize and rotating them according to the principles of endogenous rotation.
The research will use the determination of the properties of the soil, CO2 gas emission
and their concentration on the soil surface, allelopathic properties of inbred inter-crops,
determination of crop development, biometric, productivity and quality indicators, crop
weediness and diseases, energy, and environmental assessment of crop production.
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