Brussels, 25/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - At the request of the Italian delegation, the Agriculture Council of Monday 24 March discussed the difficult situation currently being experienced by the European rice sector, due to the gradual increase in imports into the EU of milled rice.
Italy, with the support of a number of countries (Spain, Greece, Portugal and Bulgaria), stressed that, in certain regions of the EU where rice is the main agricultural activity, the surface area of rice fields is...