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French Plans to Support Agri-food Sector to 2025

  • 8 Jul 12:07

Fresh moves are being made in France to support the livestock and agriculture sectors that have been rocked by low prices and poor market conditions. Last month, the agriculture minister Stéphan Le Foll called in the Ombudsman for Agricultural Trade Relations to gather evidence from the processing and distribution industry after concerns were raised over prices paid to livestock and dairy farmers. The ombudsman’s findings are due to be reported later this month. The agriculture minister also called on the agrifood chain to support farming along the chain at a time when he said the future of French pig, beef and dairy cattle breeding was being put under. Read more...