07/01/2011

UK taxpayers must continue to subsidise farmers in the future, Dacian Ciolos the EU Agriculture Commissioner tells Anna Hill at the Oxford Farming Conference. Farm subsidies cost almost £50 billion across Europe, and around £3 billion is distributed each year to UK farmers. The government wants to phase this out but Peter Kendal, President of the National Farmers' Union, says they are still necessary to keep farms in business.

Presenter, Anna Hill. Producer, Melvin Rickarby.