The European project “Re-cereal” is researching how to cultivate crops, which due to intensive cultivation of wheat and maize have disappeared from the Alpine Region.
- 01 September 2022
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These include traditional crops like millet, oats and buckwheat. The cross-border project is also a scientific project.
The company Dr Schär is Europe’s leading producer of gluten-free foods and is analyzing the genetic, agronomic and nutritional properties of ten different varieties of buckwheat and twelve other varieties of millet.
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