Launch of a petition to add Lithuanian Rye to Lithuania‘s Red Book

The situation of Lithuanian rye is critical -- the amount of rye grown in Lithuania is decreasing rapidly. The Department of Statistics has gathered the data, which shows that Lithuanian farmers cultivated more than 74,000 hectares of rye in 2008, whereas this year the figure dropped to merely 22,000 hectares. In order to preserve Lithuanian rye, the petition to include into Lithuania‘s Red Book has been started.