SUGAR THINK-PIECE
May 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNIT won't be long now before British and other European sugar beet growers find out exactly what kind of future they have - and even, in some cases, whether it's worth them staying in the game at all. I've been talking to some British beet growers and they're all a bit nervous. But that's a long way from saying they're desperate.The key date is June 22nd when the European farm commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel will unveil the long-awaited Brussels plan for sugar. We know the likely shape of this from the White Paper published by the Commission last ...
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