The EU imports around 17 million tonnes of crude protein every year, but European vegetable protein production is increasing, according to a European Commission report published on Thursday 22 November (see EUROPE 12003).
The Commission has adopted the report on the development of plant proteins, which takes stock of supply and demand (rapeseed and sunflower seeds, lentils) in the EU and explores ways to increase their production in an economically rational and environmentally friendly...