Le tournesol, une culture aux multiples vertus

Earl Litt, located in Duntzenheim, about twenty kilometers northwest of Strasbourg, cultivates wheat, corn, tobacco, and this year, sunflowers, on a total area of ​​45 hectares. Tobacco is the only crop to be irrigated, using drip irrigation. The sunflowers were sown on 5 hectares at the very beginning of April, in plots with lower water reserves. On Tuesday, August 30, harvest time arrived.