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'ACM proposals kill the agricultural sector'
The Dutch Arable Farming Union (NAV) finds the solutions proposed by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) to accelerate the sustainability of agriculture 'completely unacceptable'.
In a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, ACM, when presenting the so-called Agro-Nutri Monitor 2021, different proposals to stimulate demand for sustainable agricultural products and limit production.
The NAV agrees with the ACM's conclusion that the higher price of sustainable products is the biggest obstacle to making agriculture more sustainable, but does not agree with the production-limiting solutions proposed by the authority. "In short, this means that the production of conventional products must be severely limited by, for example, strongly increasing the legal requirements for the production method to the expropriation of companies that cannot or do not want to become more sustainable!", according to the union. in a press release.
Store shelves not more sustainable
According to the NAV, the ACM's proposals ultimately do not contribute to sustainability. "To force sustainability to be imposed on Dutch farmers with all the associated consequences, while as a result of free trade agreements such as CETA and Mercosur products are freely available that do not have to meet these requirements, agriculture in the Netherlands will be completely destroyed! Then have you made Dutch agriculture more sustainable, but certainly not the supply on the shelves and therefore not the food on the consumer's plate, on the contrary."
Linda van Eekeres
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