France and Austria want to produce more soybeans

Planned restriction of soybean imports to the EU Austria and France would like to significantly reduce soybean imports from abroad in the future. Both Agriculture Ministers stressed that both countries are committed to the European Plant Protein Strategy, which aims to strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in the field of plant protein and nitrogen fertilizers. The EU produces only 1%. world demand Already in December 2021, Austria and France called on the EU Commission to present a European protein strategy in a joint statement. This Austrian-French initiative was supported by 19 other Member States and was ultimately taken up by the European Commission. However, there are still no proposals on how this requirement could be introduced. But it should happen this year. Austria maintains that such an EU protein strategy is urgently needed. This should significantly increase supply levels in the EU. This is more than necessary, as the EU currently produces only about 1 percent of ...