INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – NEW CAP NATIONAL PLANS TARGET SUGAR PRODUCTION AND DEMAND
January 22nd, 2023
Sugar production and consumption are being targeted for spending in new national Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plans approved by the European Commission as part of a new process to secure European Union (EU) food production funding. With EUR53 billion spent in 2022 alone, this is the EU’s largest spending programme. France’s plan highlighted the need for research to improve sugar beet production to cope with new plant health threats when pesticides are increasingly restricted, notably neonicotinoids that harm honeybees. Studies will also help beet ...
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