NEW AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER PREPARES FOR DAIRY LIBERALISATION
October 1st, 2014
THE NEW European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has promised to start preparing to abolish milk production constraints as a matter of urgency when he takes up his post on November 1. At a confirmation hearing in Brussels on October 2, he promised European Parliament agriculture committee members that small farmers with limited incomes would be particular beneficiaries of the planned end of the dairy quota regime from March 2015.That said, with change looming, Hogan said there could be specific steps to protect the dairy industry when the newly ...
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