As of: February 15, 2024, 1:39 p.m
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Economics Minister Habeck now wants to give farmers more influence on pricing.
Berlin – The nationwide protests by farmers are apparently bearing fruit.
Farmers wanted to express their dissatisfaction with the federal government's plans through massive protests.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) now wants to accommodate one point - and is holding out the prospect of reform.
Habeck wants to help farmers – and wants to give farmers more influence on prices
In the future, farmers should have a greater say in how much meat, milk and cheese cost.
“The main problem with agriculture is often that they cannot pass on their production costs.
The market is not fair,” said Habeck on Wednesday (February 14) at the “RND on Site” event.
in Leipzig.
The prices are not set by the farmers, but by the purchasing hand and the intermediate processing, i.e. the slaughterhouses, the dairies or the large discounters, he argued.
Habeck held out the prospect of reforms.
However, he didn't go into detail.
As economics minister, he wanted to “see whether the mechanisms could not be reconsidered so that companies would be able to realize their prices,” said the Green politician.
Robert Habeck wants to accommodate the farmers.
In the future they should have more influence on pricing.
© Jan Woitas/dpa
In Leipzig, Habeck also commented on the current economic prospects: the federal government only expects a mini-growth of 0.2 percent for this year.
The minister said at a craft fair in Leipzig that this was “dramatically bad” and announced that the federal government would significantly lower its economic forecast for this year.
“Everyone needs to get out of their – how should I put it – warm, cozy corners,” he says on the podium.
“The time for comfort is really over.”
Habeck is accommodating farmers after protests - and wants to give them more influence on prices
The pricing of agricultural products has long been a prevailing problem.
“The prices should be viewed primarily with regard to the increase in costs in agriculture,” said Jutta Roosen, agricultural economist at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Chair of Marketing and Consumer Research there, to
tagesschau.de
.
The costs for feed and energy in particular have increased significantly.
According to the expert, only a small part of the consumer price actually ends up with the farmer.
People can help farmers even when they go shopping.
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus (SPD) also believes that the prices of agricultural products are a major cause of the difficult situation for farmers.
Producers would receive prices that were too low, while prices at the counter would rise.
Against this background, he called for the power of retail chains to be limited through antitrust law.
Prices in agriculture – do trading companies have too much influence?
Criticism that trading companies have too much influence on agricultural prices has recently become increasingly louder.
“The dominant supermarket companies can still enforce unfair contracts, change them in their favor and set prices for food below production costs,” said the Initiative for Fair Prices in Agriculture (IniFair).
It is an association of organizations from rural agriculture, dairy farmers, fair trade, development policy and environmental and consumer protection.
Farmer protests over agricultural diesel subsidies and low prices
It remains to be seen whether Habeck's approach will curb farmers' anger.
In addition to the prices, farmers have also taken to the streets in recent weeks because of the federal government's austerity plans.
The federal government wants to abolish the discount on agricultural diesel in the future.
The subsidy should be phased out gradually.
Previously, agricultural businesses were able to get a partial refund of the energy tax on diesel - with a reimbursement of 21.48 cents per liter.
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