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Reality has shown that in this as in other sectors, persuading small growers to renounce quotas and abandon production – as proposed for sugar beet and sugar production – with a view to promoting competition, has adverse effects; it accentuates development inequalities and will increase poverty and the exodus from the countryside. We therefore object to the European Commission’s proposals and stress the need to reverse this policy and take account of the specific reality of the Member States and their production needs.
We therefore support food sovereignty and hence consider it unacceptable that a country such as Portugal, with only very limited sugar production, scarcely able to supply half the country’s consumption need should be confronted with the obligation to reduce its quota for sugar produced from sugar beet. We consider it essential for the liberalising trend seen in successive CAP reforms to be reversed and measures to be taken to maintain national sugar beet production, supporting agriculture that is essentially focused upon food production and thus helping to safeguard the two factories’ production as well as employment."@en1
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