EU to review CAP reform and plan for 2013

THE Common Agricultural Policy of the new century in the European Union is much more closely geared to helping farmers in their efforts to be competitive.

Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, said this is one of the dividends of decoupling, which allows farmers to tear up their old subsidy calculations and farm whatever will bring the best returns on the market.

Addressing the Oxford Farming Conference, she said the EU will carry out two exercises in 2008- 2009.