European farmers protest milk price plunge and EU agrees to grant early subsidy

As milk prices continue to fall, Belgium, France, Germany and other 25th, the outbreak of large-scale farmers protest, farmers asked the government to reduce milk production quotas and provide more aid. Cows lead to EU headquarters 25th morning, about 6,000 German farmers drove more than 700 tractors to Berlin, blocking traffic arteries, causing the capital traffic paralysis. The German government was forced to promise to provide cheap diesel to farmers.　　In France, 12,000 dairy farmers across the country have blocked more than 80 dairy-processing factories and have organized processing plants to buy raw milk from farms to protest against the low price of raw milk. On the same day, about 1000 farmers from 10 member States of the European Union, with tractors and cows, gathered in the European Union headquarters on the streets of Brussels, demanding that the EU agriculture Ministers ' Conference listen to the Farmers ' voices.　　Demonstrators also tried to break the security zone set up by riot police. The price of milk is higher than the price protesting farmers argue that the EU's milk quota policy has led to lower incomes, requiring the European Union to lower milk production quotas to boost milk and dairy prices. A French dairy farmer said, "we demand that milk be sold at a fair price, at least to cover our expenses and some modest profits." "Our milk industry is facing unprecedented difficulties, and many dairy farmers are producing costs that are higher than their prices and their livelihoods are unsustainable," said Marian Fischer Boure, the Commission's Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner.　　"Late 25th, the European Commission announced that agriculture ministers agreed to pay the farmers in advance for subsidies from October to December this year, but refused to change the already-determined milk production quotas. Milk prices fell nearly half a year. Farmers complain that because of the European Union's liberalisation of milk quotas, which has led to excess milk markets, food processors are keeping prices down to buy milk from their hands.　　Milk prices have fallen by nearly half in the past year, and they have had to sell milk at below-cost prices. Link milk quotas will be canceled the EU issued a milk production quota system in 1984 to deal with overproduction, by stipulating the highest production quotas for countries, restricting the supply of agricultural products and stabilizing market prices. As part of the EU's common agricultural policy reform, the EU plans to phase out milk production quotas by 2015. (Wuni)