CICS 13
Each value chain actor needs to experience benefits from intercropping strategies
Topic
Production processing
Country
Switzerland
Responsible
FiBL
Objectives:
- Providing proof that intercropping provides similar quality compared to pure productions for human production 1) wheat for bread making, 2) faba bean
- Opening new perspectives in faba bean food production – from local transformation to industrial processing
Intercropping for fodder production is an established practice in organic farming: pea-barley, oat-lupine.
Several farmers grow wheat – faba bean intercropping, wheat for bread making and faba bean for fodder. The process requires support at various stages of the value chain: quality of wheat.
The next assumption is that what has been successfully developed for on-farm processing of soybean (tofu) can also be developed for faba bean.
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Each value chain actor needs to experience benefit from intercropping strategies
