Air views on ‘health check’

IRISH farmers and others in the farm and food businesses have been invited to give their views on the proposal to take 13% off their single farm payments, instead of the 5% taken off now, and to spend the extra money on rural development.

From the Irish point of view it’s the most controversial idea raised in the Common Agricultural Policy “health check”.

As much consultation with as many people as possible on all the ideas in the “health check” is the aim of European Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.