Derrick Frigot's enthusiasm for importing bull semen from top Jersey herds overseas has led to an extraordinary general meeting of the agricultural department.

Last year he said the defeat by Society members of plans to import foreign bull semen was a terrible blow to the Jersey milk industry.

Dairy farmers and members of the Society had been asked to reverse a 240-year-old law banning imports from outside the island.

The Society's council had warned the quality of animals on the island was diminishing as a result of the ban on foreign bull semen.

Two vice presidents of the Society stepped down in October in protest at the rejection of imports.