Attended by over 150 people, including MEPs, agri-attaches, journalists and young farmers from across Eu-rope, co-organiser MEP Milan Zver, said of the event: “Our objective was reached. We wanted to make sure more people knew about the lack of young people in the sector and that there are solutions to remedy this problem.”
The conference was followed by a press conference, where Mr Schifflers insisted on our livestock sector lack of successors issue, side by side with President of CEJA, Joris Baecke, who used this opportunity to urge all three institutions to prioritise generational renewal in the CAP reform.
YEMCo’s vice-president Patrick Schifflers found the right tone to bring light on YEMCo’s activities as well as on some of our main preoccupations for the new CAP reform. As you might read it in his presentation, Mr Schifflers, provided the audience with figures illustrating the fact whereas the world meat demand is growing (increase of income mainly in the developing countries), EU’s meat production (especially bovine and ovine) is decreasing. Furthermore the livestock meat sector is challenged in its generation renewal adding pressure to the European food security concern.
This event was a success on both sides; making our voice on the renewal of young livestock farmers generation proposals heard by important policy makers and on confirming a future promising cooperation between YEMCo and CEJA – the European Council of Young Farmers.