EU co-op body seeks action to ease pressure on milk producers

Action to alleviate pressure on milk producers for the last quota year is being sought by Copa Cogeca, the umbrella body for European farmers and co-ops.

It has written to Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Dacian Ciolos and the EU member states urging them to make use of the growing market opportunities in the last year of milk quotas.

Copa Cogeca is demanding that money from the milk super-levy also needs to be kept in the sector to help it develop further.