Provisional figures, published on Thursday 16 March, for the scheme put in place by the European Commission in the summer of 2016 to reduce milk production in the EU show that 43,968 farmers have voluntarily reduced their production by 851,700 tonnes between October and December 2016.
With its €150 million budget, this is one of the flagship measures put in place by the Commission to tackle the crisis in the milk sector.
It has contributed to the trend of rising EU milk prices seen over...