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"en.20120119.24.4-318-750"2
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"I voted in favour of this important resolution. Employment in the food supply chain, agriculture, the agri-food industry and distribution represents 7% of total employment in the EU and is worth EUR 1 400 billion per year – a figure greater than for any other manufacturing sector in the EU. Recent food and commodity price volatility has raised serious concerns about the functioning of European and global food supply chains and has increased insecurity as regards farm incomes and long-term investments by farmers. Farmers’ income problems are continuing to worsen and the prices paid by consumers for products are not reflected in the prices paid to farmers for their production, which is undermining farmers’ capacity to invest and innovate. This might make many farmers decide to leave farming, slowing down the economic recovery of the whole of Europe even more. I welcome the resolution’s provisions that agricultural policy must enable small and medium-sized farms, including family farms, to earn a reasonable income, to produce sufficient food of appropriate quality at affordable prices, to create jobs, to promote rural development and to ensure environmental protection and sustainability. In addition, given the impact of excessive concentration and abuses in the market, national and European competition authorities must take action against abusive buyer practices on the part of dominant wholesalers and retailers which systematically put farmers in an extremely unfavourable negotiating position."@en1
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