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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10331

9 March 2011
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
Reducing EU deficit in vegetable protein

Brussels, 08/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 8 March, the European Parliament recommended measures to attenuate the EU's deficit in plant protein, with the adoption of the report by Martin Häusling (Greens/EFA, Germany) on this long-standing problem.

The very high decrease in crops of protein-producing plants in the European Union over the last 10 years (surface area for growing protein crops has decreased by 30%, with 12% for soya) has brought about a greater protein dependency on...

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