Donau Soja rubbishes claims that the raw material basis for non-GM production has collapsed in the Europe
Soybean Meal
Soybean
Published May 14, 2022
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There is enough soybean meal of all qualities in Europe until the next harvest and sowing in the EU will be 10-15% above last year, said Donau Soja, an organization that promotes sustainable soy production in Europe. Donau Soja expects a soybean harvest of just under 10 million tons in Europe this year, of which an estimated 7m tons will be non-GMO.
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Those estimates were included in an open letter by Donau Soja to Germany’s agriculture cooperative representatives, the Deutscher Raiffeisenverband (DRV), who, along with the German Association for Animal Nutrition (DVT), has published reports claiming that supply of EU GMO-free raw materials was being hindered significantly by the war in Ukraine. In mid-March, the DRV claimed the “raw material basis for non-GM production had collapsed" and, in April, that “maintaining the supply of GM0 free goods to the broad market was not realistic in the longer term.” In the communication sent yesterday [May 12] to DRV managing director, Dr Henning Ehlers, Matthias Krön, president of Donau Soja, called for a “fact-based discussion” and he accused DRV of engaging in political spin, and that it was using “the tragic Ukraine war to gain agricultural policy related advantages.” Such a stance only harms German and European consumers as well as farmers in Germany and Ukraine, said the Donau ...
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