EU fallow farmland goal ‘absurd’, says German minister

EurActiv reported that Germany's agriculture minister Ilse Aigner described as 'absurd' on the 17 January 2013 the European Commission's proposals to keep 7% of EU farmland fallow for environmental reasons and she urged it to reconsider.

The scheme to compel the land to be taken out of production, a process known as greening, is part of a proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The history of the common agricultural policy [Focus on the period 2013-2019) http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-history-of-the-common-agricultural-policy/

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