CAP REFORM – COTTON
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE MAJORITY of cotton growing subsidies in the European Union (EU) will from 2006 be de-linked from production - mostly paid as single direct payments to growers - the EU Council of Ministers has decided at a special meeting on Common Agricultural Policy reform. Ignoring calls for restraint from the European Parliament, ministers have allowed only 35 per cent of subsidies to be linked to the hectares under cotton production from 2006. That said, ministers accepted that the "reform might require a certain adaptation for the cotton sector" and so ...
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