Oporto, 17/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - In response to the current shortage of some raw materials, on Monday 17 September, several EU Agriculture Ministers called for a temporary rise in milk production quotas. Agriculture and Rural Affairs Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is not against such a measure.
Visiting the Douro Valley with her EU counterparts, Dutch Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg told a group of journalists that the Netherlands would request a 2-3% increase in European milk...