BRITISH farmers are likely to see the annual payment they receive from the government fall in coming years, Britain’s farming minister Jim Paice said, adding he favoured its eventual abolition as global food prices rise.

Governments will to avoid food price inflation, while farmers are left to endure runaway cost inflation, well into double figures over the past year.

GERMAN support for a strong farm budget cooled this week, with the EU’s biggest paymaster saying all financial decisions have to be seen within the overall context of the EU budget — which Germany wants to limit at no more than 1% of the EU’s GDP.