Submitted by laborate on Thu, 15/09/2011 - 13:41 GMT.
José Manuel Silva Rodríguez,
Director of Agriculture of the European
Union has granted an interview to magazine
Mercados of
the newspaper La Voz de Galicia.
Silva Rodríguez talked, among others, about
the impact of planning and the forthcoming
reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP), focusing on the Galician rural communities.
We summarize below some of the statements
contained this interview, which was published
on September 4th, 2011.
bout the CAP: "There will be substantial
changes, which do not just mean the end
of milk quotas, the issue that likely raises
most of the interest in Galicia. [...] The
fundamental shift or change, no doubt, will
be placing sustainability, with all that
that entails, at the heart of CAP. And
that implies that there will be to tackle
issues in a practical way that in Galicia,
and also other regions, have been put aside
in too many occasions, such as land use,
that is, favoring the most rational and
cost-effective natural resources usage."
