This is partly due to limited cultivation knowledge (varieties, bacterial inoculum, cultivation mechanization) and partly due to the lack of a local chickpea processing chain.
Building a local chickpea processing chain
The short chain is getting the wind in its sails, and global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are unexpected catalysts. Citizens are becoming increasingly involved in the food system and the role agriculture plays in it. Consumers find their way to the farm store and the local farmer.
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Short chain
The goal is to develop a mutually fair and transparent business model to enable a local, integral and long-lasting value chain for organic soy in Flanders. Research approachUnder LoCoSoy, we unite growers, processors and retailers into a project consortium where each contributes to a total sustainable and local soy chain.
Setting up a local, sustainable soybean value chain.
Research approachVeggieChain develops innovative processing strategies for vegetables, aiming to maximize the preservation of taste, color, odor and health-related components. The project provides the necessary scientific and technological basis around 'processed vegetables' as healthy and quality products.
Evaluation of food quality throughout the vegetable processing chain
Moreover, we support chain development by holding exploratory talks with several buyers and channels. An insight into the cost price will provide the necessary basis for concretizing sales opportunities.Relevance/ValorizationThis research may result in a win-win: In the protein transition, food companies are looking for sources of plant protein.
Chain-wide initiative for plant-based protein in cold greenhouses in Flanders
FIBRAXFUN : A Knowledge Base for Exploiting Novel Wheats Rich in Arabinoxylan Dietary Fibre throughout the Wheat Value Chain
Short-chain marketing facilitates ON FARM research by ILVO
ILVO is setting up a structural research collaboration with a number of farms active in short-chain farm marketing.
PEUL-CHAIN aims to gain ground for legumes (pulses)
That is the goal of the new PEUL-CHAIN project.