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"Mr President, I have three comments to make. Firstly, we should be honest enough to admit that the milk quota has failed as an instrument for stabilising prices. This was not the fault of the farmers, but rather of the politicians, who have always allowed more milk quotas to be issued than the market could actually bear. This was also the reason why Germany, for instance, once again opposed the recent move to increase the milk quota, despite the fact that demand had not risen. A price drop was the logical consequence.
Secondly, I worry about how we can support entrepreneurship among our dairy farmers. This requires market monitoring, forward-looking market decisions and active interest groups. Although these are standard practice for pig farmers and cereal producers, there is a need for the dairy sector to catch up.
Thirdly, I would simply ask that milk production should be supported not just in disadvantaged areas and mountainous regions, but also in grassland areas: the second pillar does not fulfil the requirements here, as producers cannot possibly fulfil the extensivisation criterion, that is to say we cannot support milk producers from the second pillar because they have too many animals per hectare. Here too we need to make the necessary changes to the agricultural reform."@en1
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