In particular, the pig farmers fear the wake of the dioxin scandal. The agricultural policy seeks to prevent the worst.
Gmeiner Hans Berlin (SN). In Austria, yet found no dioxin in pork, eggs or poultry. All studies show that the feed is clean. Yet the pork prices fall already. In agriculture there is to alarm. Pressure from Germany, where prices fell to just over one euro per kilogram brings confusion, the Austrian price structure. On Friday, prices fell at the Austrian Pork market at ten cents to 1.21 euros per kilogram. At the beginning it stood at 1.41 euros.
The domestic agricultural policy is now trying to counteract. At Green week in Berlin announced Agriculture Minister Niki Berlakovich to a five-point program. As early as next week, the AMA marketing activities in advertising and marketing will focus on meat. At the European level can the minister make mood for export subsidies and warehousing operations. are models for it already. In the wake of a dioxin scandal in Belgium, the EU four years ago temporarily 100,000 tonnes from the market (the costs: 42 million €).
In Austria itself Look for the shoulder to shoulder with the trade. According to reports, keeps the chain from their suppliers already saving to process even in products such as sausages only domestic meat. In other retail chains the talks are ongoing. Additional security will also bring the introduction of a traceability system in pigs. In addition, the health authority AGES is urged to step up controls on animal feed.
Farmers hope to escape with a black eye. On the one registered to increased demand from foreign processors that are looking for alternatives to the German meat. On the other hand, it is hoped that Russia's import ban on meat but still cancels. No longer do more push around the farmers' representatives, the topic of origin labeling. "Consumers want to know what they are buying," said the minister. The Chamber of Agriculture will now take the Italian model as an example, take into account the origin of raw materials more than is currently the location of processing.
it goes after the speeches at the Green Week could be the long-awaited by many farmers talk about value of agricultural products, production conditions and cost pressures actually take place. Berlakovich speaks a new European food model the word.
that the path is difficult there shows, of course, alone in the Issues that now come in the wake of the German dioxin scandal back on the table. The required conversion of some pages of the pigs fed on GMO-free soy met many farmers and their representatives as much sympathy as demanded by animal rights activists ban on slatted floors and farrowing cages. Agricultural politicians reject this. "We must remain competitive."
Until now, this line has done well anyway. After a price-related decline in agricultural exports in 2009, the year before sharply by almost six percent to 7.55 billion euros. Imports grew by only 2.9 percent to 8.3 billion euros.
Salzburger Nachrichten - Economy / 01.22.2011
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