Fafalel, hummus, vegetable burgers, ... These delicacies are made from chickpeas and yellow pea. Unfortunately, these protein crops come mainly from distant countries such as Russia or Argentina. So can't we grow such protein crops in Belgium? “Yes, we can!” says ILVO researcher Elien De Rooze. She explains how farmers can grow protein crops and what exactly they need to pay attention to. “Who knows, that way one day we might be eating a hummus sandwich where all the raw materials grown in the same field.”
First in the world, ILVO in Melle, Belgium, has opened a large state-of-the-art field lab that allows scientists to monitor the drought response of the entire plant from leaf to root
