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You are probably right, but I just had the opportunity to deal with this issue of rural development only recently.
You will be aware of the fact that the tenth European Development Fund places greater emphasis on rural development and investment in agriculture than the ninth EDF, for example, where the budget allocated for projects on rural development and agriculture represented – if I remember correctly – 9% of the appropriations.
In the tenth European Development Fund this proportion has risen to just over 12%. The EUR 666 million provided under the ninth European Development Fund has now been increased to EUR 1.1 billion in the tenth Fund. It goes without saying that we are encouraging this development and I agree with you in stating that this is one of the best responses to the problem; the same goes for land use planning.
Developing agriculture is obviously an effective way to ease congestion in the town centres, to give the poor people who now inhabit the urban centres the chance of a better life and to attract them back to the land. We also need to have infrastructures that provide improved access and interconnectivity and better social and sanitation services.
We are therefore working on all these issues and I share your viewpoint even though I have not touched on that particular question. There are other solutions that may be put forward, but you are entirely right and rest assured that we will be placing it high on our list of priorities.
During the European Development Days this question was dealt with in some detail by Kofi Annan, who has set up a foundation to aid rural regions and develop agriculture."@en1
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