"agricultura extensiva" in English

The establishment of extensive farming practices will automatically regulate production.

They are necessary if we are to be able to maintain extensive farming.

Without these conditions there can be no sustained universal multifunctional agriculture in the European Union.

Precedence is being given to extensive farming.

In response to Mr Nicholson I would repeat what I said earlier in relation to this issue about intensive and extensive farming.

Here I am not defending intensive farming but I would like to see the different conditions in different areas better taken into account.

There is widespread pollution from pesticides and nitrates which seriously affect water quality, and what is needed is a radical shift towards more extensive, organic farming.

The Common Agricultural Policy cannot be dictated by budgetary stringency alone if we want traditional farming to survive throughout Europe!

The European Union is committed to extensive and sustainable agriculture, at the heart of which, in many of Europe's regions, is the dairy industry.

While we should all welcome proposals to increase extensive farming, we must ensure that we can police the system simply and efficiently.

So, once again, to identify the debate as being one that focuses on intensive and extensive farming is also, in my opinion, an inadequate response to a complex issue.

However, I see a certain contradiction to the demand of the European Parliament, as listed further up, for an increase in cultivated areas and encouragement of extensive agriculture.

My group will be voting against these amendments, because the type of activity identified in the three Regulations in question has more to do with micro-farms than with extensive farming.