Denmark:Farmers aim to expand without external investor
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A Greens survey among Danish farmers shows that 54% of Danish farmers wish to expand their production. Despite this, 62.5% of them say that they are against receiving capital from external investors. According to Villy Sogaard of the Syddansk University and Soren Frandsen, head of R&D at the State Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Economics say capital from external investors is bound to find its way to the Danish agriculture sooner or later. Head of Dansk Kvaeg, the farmer organisation, says structural changes will result in increasingly bigger units that will require external capital. According to him, however, there is currently no demand for external investors as farmers can secure financing on the finance market. According to Villy Sogaard, says it comes as no surprise that so many farmers wish to expand their production. According to him, it is necessary if they wish to remain competitive.
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Denmark: Disagreement about a new agriculture act
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The Danish Farmers' Union is calling for an amendment of the present agriculture act in order to bring about dynamism and growth in the agriculture sector. According to the Union, the present act is too tight. The new food minister Mariann Fischer Boel is prepared to amend the act but wants to secure the majority of 90 mandates in the parliament in order to pull through her ideas. The minister as well as farmers are particularly dissatisfied with the system of preferential position, which means that if a farmer has bought a farm all neighbours within a range of 2km can apply to receive an option to take over the farm provided that they own less than 70 hectares of land. Dansk Familielandbrug, on the other hand, is in favour of this system.
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Denmark: More dynamism into agriculture
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Mariann Fischer Boel, the new food minister in Denmark, aims to put more dynamism into the country's agriculture by looking at the prospects of amending the Danish agriculture act. She says the agriculture needs to keep up with the changes in order to remain competitive and in order to be able to meet the environmental obligations. The minister wants to focus on three aspects of the present act: firstly, the are, secondly, the number of animal units per farm and thirdly, the number of farms an individual farmer is allowed to own.
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