AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS
July 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has predicted that European beef production is set to return to "more normal" levels in its report on "Prospects for Agricultural Markets: 2002-2009. Brussels says this will result from increased prices and the end of livestock destruction schemes in March 2002 (except in the UK). Meanwhile, the report predicts a continuing rise within the EU demand for poultry and the paper predicts that the EU will become net importer of poultry. *Full report: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/caprep/prospects2002/index_en.htm
THE EUROPEAN Commission has predicted that European beef production is set to return to "more normal" levels in its report on "Prospects for Agricultural Markets: 2002-2009. Brussels says this will result from increased prices and the end of livestock destruction schemes in March 2002 (except in the UK). Meanwhile, the report predicts a continuing rise within the EU demand for poultry and the paper predicts that the EU will become net importer of poultry. *Full report: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/caprep/prospects2002/index_en.htm
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