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"Mr President, milk production is a typical feature of the worst off farming regions. It has provided a livelihood and has been a vital force in regions where other areas of agricultural production would be difficult or impossible. It has been able to make use of good levels of coarse fodder productivity in areas that are infertile, for example.
Milk production is capital-intensive. The investment needed is massive. The modern production structure can cost up to a million euros. It only normally creates jobs, however, for family farms.
Milk production is subject to quotas. Many young farmers have made huge investments in acquiring additional production rights. It is not uncommon for production quotas to be bought for EUR 150 000 or more. Milk production therefore needs a long-term protected framework. That cannot be seen as an eight-year goal. What is a sound system has resulted in a balanced framework for the farmer in which to engage in production. Price fluctuations have been small and the market stable.
Abolishing milk quotas would alter the situation immediately. The large industrial concerns in Europe’s best regions would be in a strong competitive position. Agricultural diversity would be all the poorer. Massive investments in milk quotas by family farms would immediately lose their value. The milk markets would lose their stability. All this would make the enterprise a very risky one and would have an adverse effect in particular on farming regions that are worse off in terms of their prevailing natural conditions."@en1
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