01-04-15 3:42 pm – Source: Reuters
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Thirty years after the introduction of milk quotas is today an end to this system which the European Union the production of milk kept within bounds
<. p> The quotas were then introduced to address overcapacity in the European milk (milk lakes and butter mountains). Due to the growing global demand for milk and milk products the necessity of the measure is gone.
On the milk quota was inextricably linked to the levy. That’s fine if they still had to pay farmers more milk milked than allowed.
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In the Netherlands and other Member States quotas in the run were to 1 April 2015 exceeded regularly. For the Netherlands was the levy in the 2013-2014 season up to 132 million euros.
About producing farmers walked ahead of the abolition of quotas by investing in additional barns and cows. They took the risk of being fined for granted, encouraged by the good price they uplift in recent years for their milk.
Now milk quota and levy belong to the past, milk production will increase considerably. To lead the growth in the right direction, the government has drawn up rules. Farmers who want to expand, there must ensure inter alia that they hold enough ground to let their cows graze in the meadow.
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