Europe is looking to high-protein plant crop yields to reduce reliance on imported plant proteins and enhance food security
Boosting production of plant-based protein in Europe as part of sustainable diets is an indisputable if sometimes contentious way to reduce carbon emissions in the agricultural sector.
We are growing about 20,000 hectares of fava beans in Ireland at the moment and we have the potential to grow about 50,000 hectares Charles Smyth is one of the tillage farmers who is growing beans on his farm. “I grow a range of crops from winter wheat to spring barley, oats, beans and oil seed rape,” he says. “I was first interested in fava beans for their benefits as a rotational crop. But now they can stand as a crop on their own and we get a protein payment for growing beans.”
“Because fava beans can fix nitrogen from the air, it reduces the need for chemical fertilisers,” says Mullins. “And there are residual amounts of nitrogen that remain in the soil so that the winter wheat gets an extra bounce.” “Legume flours can be directly used in baking and cooking to produce gluten-free high protein alternatives for breads, confectionery goods and pasta,” says Lynch.
The Valpro research, which is a Horizons Europe project co-funded by the European Union, is looking at how processing plants for these crops could be built close to where the plants are grown. Such facilities already exist in Germany and Croatia.
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