BRUSSELS MOVES TO INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FACED with an international food shortage and rising food process, the European Commission has proposed permanently scrapping the 'set-aside' system, where 10% of European Union (EU) farm fields lie fallow.
Also, as expected, the Commission has proposed scrapping restrictive milk quotas from 2015, with five annual 1% production quota increases before that date.
Announcing the proposals, EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said they were: "all about freeing our farmers to meet growing demand and respond quickly to what the ...
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