# RDE 462 - Paludiculture agronomy and scoping potential paludiculture food crops

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by DEFRA.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [DEFRA](/buyers/defra/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [NIAB](/suppliers/niab/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £66,660
- Award date: 19 December 2023
- Published: 3 January 2024
- Contract start: 8 January 2024
- Contract end: 31 May 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 4ececbfa-d19e-474c-af2b-5cbd95ff85e3-710983
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d46fa31a-be09-4ac6-99b4-2fdbccaa7a3e

## Description

The Paludiculture Roadmap produced by the Lowland Agricultural Peat Task Force's Paludiculture Sub-group was published earlier this year\. The agronomy pathway contains actions related to weeds, pests and diseases across years 2 and 3 of the roadmap\. Whilst parts of this pathway will be informed by ongoing paludiculture projects and other parts of the roadmap, questions are arising regarding developing policy on paludiculture which means that Defra requires answers before 2025 \(roadmap year 3\)\. Concerns have been raised about the compatibility of currently used agricultural pesticides and herbicides with paludiculture and the limited active substances that are approved for use on land immediately adjacent to aquatic areas\. Therefore, research is required to determine paludiculture compatible control measures for weeds, pests and diseases that could thrive under paludicultural conditions and threaten crop quality\. Similarly, the agricultural policy and farming support pathway does not propose to start the investigation of paludiculture suitable food crops until roadmap year 3, but the ability of paludiculture to supply food crops is an important question in policy development\. Therefore, the intention is to start scoping paludicultural food crops now, to identify the most promising crops for further investigation\. This contract was awarded by DEFRA\.

## Related contract awards

- [Central - AOMR Lot 3 Incident Response - Direct Award - 2026-27 - WMD - VMS](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e7f1ee8d-00f4-43a9-8a1a-282b0f70116c) — DEFRA
- [Central - AOMR Lot 3 Incident Response - DA - 2026-27 - WMD - Ground Control](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e58e1db4-32d3-49ab-99d5-e056db40acd7) — DEFRA
- [NBC PR22 - Coombelands Enabling Infrastructure](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2491ef3a-73c9-4149-8406-2f76b93b5365) — DEFRA
- [PENRITH FEASIBILITY STUDIES CRPS](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8124ab0b-c9bf-44e6-9940-8c168c2be264) — DEFRA
- [RDE894 - Assessment of the compatibility of active water level management for f](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b37626e3-7e28-48c1-b916-65a60dd964fd) — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- [Artificial Intelligence Genomic Pattern Recognition for Barley](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a4b80af4-c3bb-4387-99e7-13981e99258d) — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- [RDE821 - Methodology to include paludiculture in definition of good agricultural](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5cbeb014-cc22-4899-93c0-de7c99f98a46) — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- [A Review of Plant Genetic Breeding Approaches for Field Grown and CEA Crops](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4085baac-9629-4d95-86ea-d31846d8fdbc) — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- [Translation & Interpreting Service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-54075a52-9d7d-4c1f-b548-9dc63dcc95cb) — London Borough of Waltham Forest
- [QBE082 09:00 2026-08-21 Haverhill to Sir Peter Hall School, Bury St Edmunds - 4-seater vehicle required - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3fe11212-9db7-4019-8387-e0a616618a82) — Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport
- [QOC931 09:00 2026-08-21 Onehouse & Newmarket to InToto Education, Fordham, Ely, Cambs - 4-seater vehicle & Passenger Assistant required - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-88df1231-5adf-4f73-b42b-71e8931d53ab) — Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport
- [SEN20061-SEN-W/C TAXI-DOROTHY GOODMAN UPPER BARWELL LANE](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-759dbe2b-b549-4a79-9512-eb9eafef5895) — Leicestershire County Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4ececbfa-d19e-474c-af2b-5cbd95ff85e3-710983)