The Bio-economy Council presented the priorities that it has set out for its research fields in the initial expert report in Brussels on 14 June 2011. In the Council’s estimation, this setting of priorities will make it possible to achieve the

objectives of the Federal German Government's “National Research Strategy Bio-economy 2030”. According to this the most pressing need is to breed new crop plants and farm animals, secondly to develop more efficient cultivation technologies and reduce harvesting losses, and thirdly to utilise soil as a resource on a more sustainable basis.