FOOD INTERNET
June 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLFARMERS and food industry cooperatives have been encouraged by the European Commission to use the Internet as a way of improving communications with fellow producers, processors, distributors and customers.Speaking to the Praesidium of EU cooperative movement COGECA, information society commissioner Erkki Liikanen urged these rural industries not to miss out on the opportunities offered by the development of e-commerce technologies.He added that the Internet was particularly important to cooperatives, given that the more members they recruited, ...
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