New project aims to revive lentil cultivation in Germany

Published 2024년 5월 8일

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The Julius Kühn Institute is leading the WiLGeR project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, to improve lentil breeding and make winter lentils more appealing for organic mixed crop cultivation in Germany. The project will evaluate local varieties and conduct field trials, with the goal of increasing yield potential, developing winter forms, and improving the competitive power of lentils. The project also aims to support the cultivation of lentils under German conditions and to activate value chains for regionally grown lentils.

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05/08/2024 | 1:02:00 PM | ID: 39351 | Department: Agriculture | Science & Research Quedlinburg/Bonn (agrar-PR) - The Julius Kühn Institute is coordinating the WiLGeR project, which aims to improve lentil breeding in order to make winter lentils in particular attractive for organic mixed crop cultivation. Regional varieties such as the Kyffhäuser lentil or the Dornburger lentil are also included. The lentil is a popular protein plant. Germany imports 40,000 tons of the protein-rich legume every year. In Germany itself, however, the crop is only grown on a very small area (2,000 hectares), mostly organically and only in a few selected regions. Only four percent of the lentils that end up on German plates come from domestic cultivation. That is now set to change: "In order to revive lentil cultivation in Germany and make the legume attractive to farms again, the crop must be improved through breeding," says Dr. Christoph Germeier from the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) in Quedlinburg. ...

Source: Agrar