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Book of Abstracts First Legume Society Conference 2013: A Legume Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013
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The origin of the market of leguminous plants in Poland in terms of restitution of their
production and widespread use for feeds
Michał A Jerzak, Dorota Czerwińska-Kayzer, Joanna Florek
Poznan University of Life Sciences
The superior goal of the economic policy of every country is to guarantee vegetable protein
security. In history in Poland the goal was achieved by using domestic sources of protein based
on leguminous plants. However, the development of global trade caused a breakdown in the
domestic production of this raw material. In 1989 the cultivated area was 309 thousand ha, but in
2002 it was only 19 thousand ha. The protein from domestic leguminous plants in feeds for
poultry and pigs began to be replaced with imported soya protein, which was easily available and
competitive in price and quality. The process led to the situation where more than 80% of the
domestic demand for vegetable protein is covered with imported soya protein. In consequence,
there is dependence on foreign sources of protein and uncertainty in domestic protein security.
Thus, the problem of restitution of the production and market of domestic leguminous plants
has become topical. It is a known fact that an increasing demand for domestic leguminous plants
on the current global and very competitive market will require development of a legume-based
protein product, which will be capable of quality and price competition with the omnipresent
soya protein. As a result of the research, two possible procedures aimed at increasing the demand
for domestic leguminous plants were developed. The scientists developed two models for
increasing the demand on the Polish market.
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