Biochar and new forest plantations: winning combination for soil Carbon preservation and sequestration.

Thanks to Rural Development Programme (RDP) of Veneto Region in Italy an Operational Group was created to increase the plantations with poplar trees and other species on agricultural soils and to increase the level of carbon in the soil. In fact, the sub-Measure 16.2 play a role mainly in the agriculture and forestry sectors improving their competitiveness and their impact on environment and climate change, particularly on the Focus Area 5E "Fostering Carbon conservation and sequestration in agriculture and forestry".