Developing faba bean value chain (Lithuania)

Summary

With the recent development of agriculture, economic, efficient, and sustainable farming systems have been gaining increasing relevance, especially in the context of bio-economics concept. Various stressful environmental factors that impact on agroecosystems and rising prices of energy resources and farm inputs are increasingly affecting agricultural production costs. Considering this, the questions related to the benefits of fababeans and other legumes are very important. The fababeans have the potential to produce grains for food, feed and others biorefinings. Like peas and others legumes, fababeans are an important source of plants proteins.

Current barriers of the value chain development

Farmers grow legumes, but less than cereals whose yields are less risky. Only a small proportion of grains is consumed for feed and extensively processed for food. The benefits of legumes in a crop rotation not always fully understand farmers.

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