53. Recalls its resolution of 8 March 2011 on ‘The EU protein deficit: what solution for a long-standing problems’, and especially recital AF thereof, which states: ‘whereas, besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures, which can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, should be encouraged, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate’, and recalls the importance of kee ...[+++]ping crop rotation as a key element of the so-called green component of the Common Agricultural Policy towards 2020;

AF. whereas, besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures, which can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, should be encouraged, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate,

AF.whereas, besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures, which can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, should be encouraged, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate,

With funding from the science and innovation program, the pulse industry sat down with the food industry, medical researchers, and health professionals and asked what should be done to use the attributes of pulses high protein, low fat, low glycemic index, high fibre to address such health issues as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and more.

Secondly, production of EU protein sources such as legumes (peas, beans, sweet lupins, lucerne, red clover, sunflowers and soya-beans), cereals, grasses and brassicas (which include kale, swede, mangels, turnip and rape) could be increased through improved plant breeding to encourage higher yields, better pest/disease resistance and lower input costs.

Pulse crops break disease cycles and insect cycles, so they reduce the need for chemicals.