Quota restrictions blamed for EU’s lost milk sales

FARMERS’ fears that the EU is losing out on milk sales due to quota restrictions have been confirmed in an important report for the European Commission.

They said prospects for the EU milk sector are generally positive until 2008, in terms of market balance, farm-gate prices and income, and meeting possible future WTO commitments.

But losses arise at home and abroad, according to the experts in France’s INRA agri-research body and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands.