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07/01/2011
The EU Agriculture Commissioner tells Farming Today that UK taxpayers must continue to subsidise farmers in the future.
UK taxpayers must continue to subsidise farmers in the future, Dacian Ciolos the EU Agriculture Commissioner tells Anna Hill at the Oxford Farming Conference. Farm subsidies cost almost 拢50 billion across Europe, and around 拢3 billion is distributed each year to UK farmers. The government wants to phase this out but Peter Kendal, President of the National Farmers' Union, says they are still necessary to keep farms in business.
Presenter, Anna Hill. Producer, Melvin Rickarby.
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