Call for 2% increase in milk quotas

DAIRY co-op leaders from Ireland, Denmark and Holland have called for an increase in milk quotas by up to 2% per annum from 2009 to 2014.

A joint delegation from the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, the Danish Dairy Board and Dutch Processors put the call to EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel, at a meeting in Brussels.

They said the increase was required to achieve a “soft landing” and provide predictability of policy in the run up to the ending of milk quotas in 2015.