SOYBEANS AND SOYBEAN MEAL

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IN 1,000,000 TONNES

GM SOYBEAN ADOPTION RATES IN % GMO OF ALL SOYBEANS PLANTED

Argentina

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

U.S.A.

Brazil

Canada 6.0

1.3 | 0.0 0.6 | -

Canada

2000

2005

2010

U.S.A.

4.0 | 1.2 31.3 | 0.0

86.1

CULTIVATION IN THE DANUBE SOYA REGION

Paraguay 9.0 Paraguay

Danube 3.4

2

Danube (Donau) soya region

1

EU

Russia 2.6 Ukraine 3.9

GLOBAL IMPORTS OF SOYBEAN IN 1,000,000 TONNES

11.7

CHINA

3

850

11

0 80

120 110 0 120 8 385

1,442

Argentina

54

65

210 2

IN 1,000 (THOUSAND)TONNES 4 cultivation in the 1.4% (47,500 tonnes) of the total soybean Danube region (3.4 million tonnes soya) has been certified according to the Danube soya guidelines.

Argentina

6.1 | 8.8 Brazil

Rest of the world China EU

China India 8.8

2014

Brazil

220

China

EU 1.7

U.S.A.

107.7

EU

EU

32.6 48.8%

22.3% 31.7%

1995

2000

1.4 | 1.0

114.2

65

40.9%

58.2%

61.7%

65.5%

23.1%

14.3%

12.0%

10.3%

2005

2010

2014

2020

M

CHINA

32.6 | 0.1

46.7

94.1

142

EU

0.1 | 9.3

EU

6.0 | -

CHINA

GLOBAL SOYBEAN CULTIVATION IN 1,000,000 TONNES

EU SOYBEAN MEAL DEMAND TOTAL: 31,800,000 TONNES

Legend / map key Reference year: 2014

Country / Production volume | meal beans Export volume to EU beans | meal Export volume to China 0.0 = < 0.05 - = none

4.3% EU Import Soybean Meal EU Import Soybeans EU Cultivation Soybeans

33% 62.7%

127

164

217

1995

2000

2005

263

306

344

2010

2014

2020

1 20% OIL

80% MEAL

FEED

2

Soybean meal is a vital protein rich feed material for the EU’s livestock sector.

Grams of meal fed per kg/product 578

305

292

255

10

5

Sunflower

Rapeseed

0

Peas

100

Lupin

Soya is a far more efficient protein source than 400 other feed materials. 300 Crude Protein g/kg 200

8 The EU market authorisation process for GMOs 9 is much slower than in the U.S.A. and Canada.

More than 90% of cultivated soybeans in the U.S.A., Argentina and Brazil is genetically modified (GM).

26

Annually the EU processes more than 13 million tonnes of soybeans (import value 5.2 billion Euro). The main EU processors of soybean are Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.

Soybean

4

7

U.S.A., Brazil and Argentina represent more than 80% of total global exports of soybeans and soybean meal.

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Furthermore, the EU applies a zero tolerance policy towards non-approved GM soybean events.

MILK

3

6

The EU would need a soybean acreage of 13.5 million hectares to be self-sufficient. The EU’s present acreage is 0.6 million hectare.s.

China’s share in global soybean imports increased from 0% to more than 60% in the period 1995-2014 while the EU’s share decreased from 49% to 12% in 70% Global imports the same period. 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

China

THE EU IS FOR

EU

MORE THAN 90% 1995 2000 2005

2010 2014

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The EU is for more than 95% dependent on imports to fulfil its soybean demand. © May 2015

OF CULTIVATED SOYBEANS IN THE U.S.A., ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL IS GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM).

MORE THAN 95%

DEPENDENT ON IMPORTS TO FULFIL ITS SOYBEAN DEMAND.