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"Madam President, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation published a report last week highlighting that mankind is perilously close to a new global food crisis. This is why agricultural producers have been asked to increase their production, especially of wheat and maize, and build up their food stocks again in 2012.
Global food demand will continue to grow in future. The European Union ought to be able to help meet global food demand. As a result, it is vital for the Union’s agricultural sector to maintain its production capacity and improve it.
In particular, small, medium-sized and family-owned farms need simpler and more easily accessible instruments, both in terms of subsidies and direct payments aimed at attracting them to the market.
The key to long-term food security is to encourage investment in agriculture, especially through simplifying the bureaucracy faced by farmers. In order to achieve this, it is important for us to facilitate European farmers’ access to bank loans on favourable terms, as well as provide subsidies for farmers.
I ask you, Commissioner, to support us, just as during the review of the energy taxation directive, in obtaining a reduced VAT rate for electricity used for irrigation."@en1
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