AgraFood Europe

摘要

EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel says export subsidies for agricultural products will be abolished after 2013 even if the Doha Round talks fail; The European Commission has won the right to approve the cultivation of a genetically modified potato, the first crop to be authorised for nearly a decade; Controls on Transmissible Song/form Encephalopathies (TSE) in sheep and goats are to be relaxed, the European Commission has announced; japan bans German poultry as avian flu epidemic spreads across Europe, with outbreaks confirmed in Germany, the Czech Republic and France Germany is to increase its farm budget by 2.1 % in 2008, according to a draft agreed by the Cabinet this month; The Polish parliament has adopted a new law offering taxbreaks to farmers producing biofuel for blending with fossil fuels; Growing demand for biofuels has led to a surge in rapeseed and cereal plantings by EU farmers, according to figures released by Eurostat; Brazilian meat exports have surpassed the U51 dollar Obn mark in the last year, with pigmeat exports showing good signs of recovery.