"agricultor" in English

It should be the market and the individual wine-grower who should decide when to close down a vineyard.

We also need to identify measures for the farming profession which will create equality on the market.

It is the fruit of cooperation between nature, the climate, technology and the human being as cultivator.

An ordinary coffee planter in Tanzania or Kenya earns at best a few euros per week.

In this regard, I ask the House to take serious note of the fact that the profession of farming is in decline.

Even Al Capone and Lucky Luciano got caught, so why not a poor olive-grower or oilproducer if he commits a fraud?

But if the surveillance shows a sustained positive development in particular areas, then things can be relaxed a little in line with scientific evidence.

The former German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, received the same treatment as members of the old Fifteen from the moment it joined the Union.

It is essential that growers should issue advance warning of pesticide spraying to people who live close by and are thus potentially exposed.

I look to the Agriculture Committee to support the Finnish smallholders as energetically as it is now supporting the Irish sheep rearers.

a peasant farmer

pisco grape grower

There are, however, different types of farming, and therefore it would be misleading to say that it favours non-chemical methods, because agriculture is agriculture.

We have used the Habitat Directive for many years to encourage the Member States to designate appropriate sites in their territory, whilst assuring them that funding would be guaranteed.

We can only hope that the introduction of a single funding and programming instrument will make it easier to manage and control the new rural development policy.

Therefore, we must reaffirm the role of agriculture as the protector of the environment, a role which is wont to be sidelined, overlooked and undervalued on sunny days.

– It may perhaps have escaped your notice, Commissioner, that in Austria this issue has for some years now been a cause of immense commotion, which has resurfaced in the last few weeks.

How will it reflect on the agricultural profession as a whole and how will it be for the European agricultural model and its justification if we cannot have a decision on a matter of this sort?

The challenge of so-called globalisation affects them directly, but insufficient account is perhaps taken of the persisting uncompetitiveness of European agriculture.

But, without doubt, the real issue here is the future of farming per se, because if young people are no longer prepared to take up farming, then any further debate on agriculture is superfluous.