At the end of the EU Council meeting in Luxembourg on Monday 27 April, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, announced that the European Commission was examining measures to help farmers in the cereals sector in particular to cope with the high cost of fertilisers.
“Fertiliser costs are high. And our cereal producers are under particular pressure. They have to pay more to produce, but they do not benefit from higher prices for their products. They can’t make a...