High quality local protein and glutein-free oat from farm to table

Offer name:

Expiry date:

31/12/2017

Offering LAG:

Leader Joensuun seutu

Country:

Finland

Spoken languages:

English - Finnish - French - Swedish

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner:

Partner should be interested in one or more of the same local food chains; plant protein, lamb or oat. The same climate section, Sweden, Estland, Baltic etc. or same kind of rural area might bring more comparison possibilities.

Type of area:

National / Regional borders, Inland, Coastal, Mountainous, Peri-Urban, Rural

Assets of the area:

Cropland, Pasture

Project idea

Project type:

- Cooperation within the country
- Across regions
- Transnational cooperation
- Cross - border cooperation

Project topic:

- Knowledge transfer / education / training activities
- Agriculture & Farming
- Food & Drink
- Business development
- Employment / job creation
- Self-employment

Additional keywords:

Local food chain

Context:

Many dairy farms are moving to plant production and they need to find new possibilities for farming and better subsistence. Farms without animals have the same need, they have to find crops which have real demand and growing markets (fava beans and glutein-free oat, both normal and organic). Sheep farmers, meat processors and foodservice need to develop their production, demand of local lamb (normal and organic) is much bigger than offer. Sheep production is climate friendly and based on farm-produced feed and mainly organic, which also use same fava beans and oat for feed. Demand of plant protein, good quality lamb and oat is growing with speed which creates big possibilities for local food chain from farm to table.

Project idea summary:

The project idea is to answer consumers’ fast growing demand on high quality local food protein and gluten-free cereal products. The focus is based on farming possibilities on local farms, local/regional food processing and foodservice in two Finnish provinces North Karelia and Southwest Finland. This project will focus on production-processing-marketing-chain of plant protein, lamb and glutein-free oat. Demand of good quality protein of beans and lamb as well as glutein-free oat is growing all-over and the production is easily combined with other production on farms. These three production lines are extremely suitable in Finnish climate and will replace import of soya and other components. The project is searching partners with same kind of interests on growth of the local food chains from farm to table in these sectors. Learning new ideas, comparing processes, solving problems together, transferring knowledge and finding best practises in these three food chains brings benefits for all interest groups and stakeholders.

Objectives:

The focus of the project is production of local food from farm to table with three main production lines, quality protein with beans and lamb as well glutein-free oat. The goal is to increase production, processing and consumption locally by benchmarking, finding new solutions and learning from farmers, processors and markets in other regions. Problem solving with colleagues from other regions in Finland and Europe brings new ideas and solutions to take advantage.
Main target groups are 1. Interested farmers who need new possibilities for farming, 2. Local/regional processors, already in function or new ones, 3. Buyers and dealers 4. Foodservice.