MEPs have voted for a multi-billion euro agricultural subsidies deal that farmers say will be create major challenges for the way they farm but environmentalists say will destroy nature. The latest package of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) measures will largely dictate farming practices across Europe until 2027. Read MoreBut farmers’ organisations said the deal would be demanding on the sector and require significant changes in farming practices. “All farmers already have to meet standards of good agricultural and environmental practices under current CAP rules,” he said. Friends of the Earth said it was a “historically bad week for the future of farming” that would perpetuate a system of “wrong policies and warped farming subsidies which mainly benefit industrial scale factory farms”.

Source: Irish Independent October 23, 2020 18:22 UTC