BRUSSELS SAYS QUOTA ABOLITION WILL NOT HARM DAIRY INDUSTRY
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEARS that the abolition of European Union (EU) milk production quotas in 2015 could flood markets with cheap milk and drive some producers to the wall will not be realised, the European Commission has claimed. In a food commodity forecast to 2020 released today, (January 13), the Commission concludes "quota abolition is projected to have a limited impact on milk deliveries at the aggregate EU level..." Indeed it says milk production should actually remain below the last 2015 quota cap, with production falls caused by the recent price ...
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