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"The Commission is preparing a new attack on small and medium-sized farm holdings in its proposal to reduce direct payments by 20%. Transferring 20% of resources from the first pillar, in other words direct payments, to the second pillar, which is basically reaped by businesses and large holdings, means a reduction in income support for small and medium-sized holdings.
The result will be to speed up the eradication of small holdings and the concentration of agricultural production in fewer hands. In numerous cases, agricultural production and employment will even shrink, without being compensated for by the development of second pillar activities.
As regards the proposal for this transfer to apply voluntarily, on the one hand this will create twin-track farming and, on the other hand, the prospect in the immediate future will be of the voluntary transfer becoming compulsory. This sort of
has been used in the past.
Farmers in Greece are experiencing the adverse impact of the new CAP. Tobacco production has fallen by 70% and sugar beet crops by 40%. The completion of the CAP will have the same adverse impact on other basic crops in my country. Today's proposal will be yet another blow to the cumulative and major problems of farmers, which is why we reject it."@en1
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