Brussels, 31/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - Over the past weeks, the drought in several regions of the world has led to dramatic price increases for certain commodities, mainly maize and soya which risk destabilising certain sectors of European agriculture, Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos acknowledged on Friday 31 August, the day after cereal harvest forecasts, which despite everything are satisfactory, had been presented to the EU management committee.
Dacian Ciolos takes the view that...