Field peas bred to meet climate challenges might keep Italian production on track

By Jamie Brown
Updated December 5 2017 - 5:24pm, first published November 14 2017 - 7:00am
Mariano Paolliviro, harvesting soybeans at Ragazzo via Padua with the irrigated crop yielding 3.2t/ha. Where soy relied on rain, last summer's drought aborted flowers. Could Australian bred field peas provide a more reliable alternative?
Mariano Paolliviro, harvesting soybeans at Ragazzo via Padua with the irrigated crop yielding 3.2t/ha. Where soy relied on rain, last summer's drought aborted flowers. Could Australian bred field peas provide a more reliable alternative?

Global demand for protein to feed livestock in intensive agricultural systems has never been so enormous and concern that climate change of two degrees Celsius will cruel production of certain protein producing legumes is something scientists in Italy take seriously.

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