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Miscanthus rhizomes carry one price on the price list, and an established hectare costs something else entirely. When a farmer works out what establishment will come to, three factors matter: the price per unit, the planting rate per hectare, and what the supplier adds on top of the planting material itself. Let's take each in turn. How many miscanthus rhizomes you need per hectare The planting rate is the key figure in the budget. We plant 20,000–22,000 rhizomes per hectare,

Miscanthus is planted once and harvested for twenty years in a row. Because of that, almost every decision that determines a plantation's productivity is made before the third year — after that, fixing mistakes gets expensive. Below is the sequence of operations, proven on our own fields in Zhytomyr region with the Terravesta Athena variety. What this crop is and where it grows Giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus) is a perennial grass with C4 photosynthesis — the same ty