Present status and future prospects of faba bean production and improvement in Greece Podimatas C., Karamanos A.J. in

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Cubero J.I. (ed.), Saxena M.C. (ed.).

Present status and future prospects of faba bean production and improvement in the Mediterranean countries

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Present status and future prospects of faba bean production and improvement

in Greece

C. PODIMATAS*

A.J. KARAMANOS**

OF OF

75 11 8 55

- Faba bean cultivation in has steadily declined in the last 30 a value of 8,100 ha in 1988.

Yields have slightly 1 to 1.9 t/ha the same Faba mainly as

a as on new

with Sclerotinia disease.

of the

the of the and to on new and

- “Situation actuelle et perspectives de la production et amélioration de la fève en Grèce”. La culture des fèves en Grèce a dimimé progressivement pendant les demiers 30 mu, atteignant des valeurs de 8.100 ha eï1 1988. Le rendement a augmenté légèrement de à tlha dans la même période. La fève est utilisée principalement pour la consommation humaine en grains secs ou gousses vertes, et en moindre degré, comme aliment pour le bétail. La recherche agricole se dirige surtout vers la production de nouvelles variétés ayant de meilleures caractéristiques agronomiques et résistantes à Les mécanismes de résistance et la susceptibilité à la sécheresse des variétés sont étudiés simultanément. L’accroissement de la sng5ace de culture des fèves dépendra beaucoup de la réorganisation du marché et d‘une meilleure information aus agriculteurs en matière de llouvelles variétés et techniques modernes de culture.

Introduction

Faba bean has been cultivated in since antiq- uity mainly human consumption 1960).

ing the last 30 cultivation has steadily declined (Fig. 1 to 3). The being cultivated is less than 10000 ha, and is mainly by

genotypes (Vicia faba major) human consumption, and to a extent by small-seeded genotypes (V. f a b a minor and eqztina) animal feed.

this declining human consumption of faba beans is continuously

because of favism and, pulses, such as beans and lentils,

known that a high of the human population

of the is sensitive to favism be-

cause of the lack of the in the blood

1982). Secondly, fields

with because of stability and

intensive mechanisation. the

sion of to the cultivation

of such as maize, cotton and

beet 1983). the state policy con-

is than legumes.

Finally, the bulk of needs animal

have been now by

soybeans. An to expand soybean cultivation in the last has been out, but with little success, in view of the low yield (2.5 to 3 th a) of the soybean

Agricultural research

of the many advantages of faba bean cultivation extensive aimed at expanding the cultiva-

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seed for human

'o.,

consumption

Y

El

q,

1 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 €8 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

Y EAR

Fig. 1. The cultivated with faba bean in 1961 (ha), seed human and animal consumption

and pods (data the of

28

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22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6

4 2

I ì

i a ^\

^I^Green

1

^Dry^seed^for^ànimal^use ^-Y--&

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 YEAR

Fig. 2. Faba bean in 1961 (t) pods.

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a

v

8

7

6

h

E 4

ir

3 -

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2 - seed for animal use

61 62 63 64 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 YEAR .

Fig. 3. The of faba from 1961 (t/ha).

tion of small seeded faba bean has been

the as well

as by the of

of of Thessaloniki (Lab-

of A wide

has been out at the of

since 1958. main has been the

uction of to disease, which

causes the wettest of the cultivation

1982). on

in 1974 with 185 faba bean genotypes collected all the

1985, five new

being tested all to this disease

as well as (yield sta-

bility, etc.). As as we can judge the available, at least one

be quite

this objective, has

been done yield stability,

and mechanisation A

tannin contents (N. 329) has been at the Uni- of Thessaloniki, and has been included in the Joint of the

of

of the subjects of the

at the of Athens.

Likewise, in cultivation

density, weed etc.) have also been studied by the teams in both and Athens.

Perspectives

the needs

mal feed and, at the same time, the massive of soybeans, we conclude that is a scope the expansion of faba bean cultivation in

advantages of faba bean soybean cultivation: faba bean is cultivated as a and can

be a effective in The

cultivation of

can easily yields to the levels obtained with soy-

bean which and high soil

to a

tion of the of the final to animal feed is absolutely this context, the

of to be

to on new

tivation techniques is as a faba

bean expansion.

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C. (1982): Faba bean to Scle-

rotinia sclerotiorum. E.E.C. on Vicia faba,

(1960): A to explaining the potential (1983): Faba beans in

Vicia faba L. Euphytica 957-73. 7:6-8.

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