Company plans jumbo crop of elephant grass

A LIMERICK company is planning to help plant 10,000 acres of elephant grass.

JHM Crops has grown the country’s first commercial crop of the grass, which is being seen as a fuel of the future. It has a five-year target to help growers nationwide.

Increasing demand for alternative, renewable energy sources, and its potential for other uses, are boosting interest in the bamboo-type crop, also known as miscanthus.