The "Legume Generation" project aims to accelerate the breeding of legumes in Europe to increase their productivity and profitability. Currently, only 2-3 percent of arable land in Europe is used for legume cultivation. The project, led by Lars-Gernot Otto, brings together 32 research institutions and breeding companies from 16 countries and is supported by the European Union and the United Kingdom with 7 million euros. The goal is to reduce Europe's dependence on imported soy, which currently amounts to 33 million tons, by improving the cultivation of legumes such as soybeans, lupins, peas, lentils, beans, and clover.
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Legumes only thrive on 2 to 3 percent of arable land in Europe. Not enough, as the initiators of the “Legume Generation” project think. 32 research institutions and breeding companies from 16 countries have therefore come together under the leadership of Lars-Gernot Otto from the German Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research to jointly pave the way for a European protein supply. 33 million tons of imported soy for Europe By February 2028, the aim is to accelerate the breeding of legumes and thus make their cultivation more productive and profitable. Because this is exactly where “Legume Generation” currently sees the problem: “Private investments in the breeding of legumes have so far been less profitable,” they say. “The way we grow and use protein plants in Europe” has a major influence on the world. After all, the EU's annual soy demand alone amounts to around 33 million tonnes, while only around 2.8 million tonnes are produced internally. The European ...
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