Right policies will aid relationships

EUROPEAN rural communities should be healthy and stable enough for the farmer to find a wife or a husband without having to advertise for one in Russia.

That’s what EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel told a conference organised by the Women’s Food and Farming Union in Wales.

She said this means having policies in place that create opportunities and give the right kind of support — to women and men, in agriculture and outside it.