Swedish presidency’s bid to tackle crisis in dairy farming welcomed

AN initiative by the Swedish presidency of the European Union to set up a special farm council meeting on October 5 to discuss the dairy crisis was welcomed yesterday.

Copa and Cogeca, the representative bodies for European farmers and co-ops, urged the ministers to take rapid political decisions to help solve the unprecedented crisis facing dairy farmers.

Copa president Padraig Walshe warned in a letter to farm council president Eskil Erlandsson that the crisis in the dairy sector is causing huge income losses for farmers, forcing many of them to go bankrupt.