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Grain Legumes for the Sustainability of European Farming Systems

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32

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Grain legumes offer many agronomic, environmental and socio-economic benefits when grown in succession with cereals. They can increase the yields of following crops in the rotation. They fix indirectly atmospheric nitrogen, which makes them economical and environmentally friendly. Globally grain legumes are cultivated on an area of 201,728 thousand ha with a total production of 383,728 thousand tones. In Europe, grain legumes are cultivated on an area of 5726 thousand ha, which represents only 1.8% of total arable lands in Europe. Cultivated area of grain legumes is very low as compared to other words countries and, consequently, Europe imports yearly 20 million tons of soybean meals and 12 million tons of soybean grain. Farmers show lack of interest in cultivating grain legumes due to many climatic, soils, technical, agronomic and economic constraints. These constraints can be removed by technological innovations, provision of more premiums, increasing the sale price and grain yield, and reduction in yield variability of grain legumes.

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Mahmood, F., Shahzad, T., Hussain, S., Shahid, M., Azeem, M., Wery, J. (2018). Grain Legumes for the Sustainability of European Farming Systems. In: Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98914-3_5

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