SMALL GRANTS
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH and other EU governments have been given the right to subsidise food processors with small grants, from an overall allocation for micro-payments to the sector. The bulk of these will go to farmers and fishermen, but under new European Commission scheme, the UK - for instance - is free to choose how it annually spends Euro 72 million on agricultural food production and Euro 12.6 million on fish production
THE BRITISH and other EU governments have been given the right to subsidise food processors with small grants, from an overall allocation for micro-payments to the sector. The bulk of these will go to farmers and fishermen, but under new European Commission scheme, the UK - for instance - is free to choose how it annually spends Euro 72 million on agricultural food production and Euro 12.6 million on fish production
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