The EU has unveiled a plan for reform of its Common Agricultural Policy, the rural payments system that costs more than 40bn euros (�32bn) a year.The proposals are aimed at making farmers more responsive to market forces amid rapidly rising food prices.
They aim to scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food.
EU agriculture boss Mariann Fischer Boel wants to minimise the distortion to food markets the subsidies create.
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