EUROPEAN COMMISSION SUGGESTS MORE HELP FOR HONEY INDUSTRY

BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN honey producers want more European Union-(EU)-funded research into their sector and better coordination of member states' national honey promotion programmes. The call from FEEDM - the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors - and EU general food producers association COPA-COGECA comes in an assessment of the EU's 2005 regulation funding honey data collection and marketing. The EU is the world's second largest honey producer (after China), making 174,000 tonnes annually: 13% of global production. FEEDM and COPA-COGECA said ...


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