Fischler calls for focus on rural development

Austria: Rural development is not a weekend allotment in which academics can play at farming, EU Agriculture Commissioner Dr Franz Fischler has warned.
Fischler calls for focus on rural development

“Rural development concerns us all, whether farmer, rural community or city-dweller.

“Without a living countryside, farming has no future, and without farmers the rural areas do not have one either,” he said.

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