As of: March 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m
By: Friedbert Holz
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Nicole Bauer (FDP) explained her view of modern agriculture in Erding.
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The FDP advocates a clear economic turnaround.
This also includes agriculture.
There was lively discussion about this in Erding.
Erding – Agriculture and how to treat farmers have been discussed nationally and internationally for weeks.
The district FDP now invited people to the agriculture dialogue, to which around a dozen farmers from the district came to the Best Western Hotel at the train station in Erding.
There, Bundestag member Nicole Bauer (37), who is an industrial engineer and market town councilor in Velden and sits on the Landshut district council for the FDP, explained her point of view.
“I come from agriculture myself, I know that ever-increasing regulations, especially from the European Union, are driving companies into more and more bureaucracy.
I would rather see more willingness to invest and less discussion about subsidies.
Ultimately, farmers want to be able to work as independent entrepreneurs in a free market economy and not see themselves primarily as recipients of public money,” emphasized Bauer.
She is of the opinion that a Europe-wide uniform solution to the problems of farmers should be sought: “This is the only way to achieve fair competitive conditions for everyone.” She is rather critical of the allocation of state or EU funds based on the size of the farm: “We need a kind of construction kit for this.
Even in Germany there are areas with very large areas that are more likely to ask for decommissioning.
But for us that would be a sin.
We also have to deal with very different soil and weather conditions.
This cannot simply be lumped together.”
Bauer refused to reduce the subsidies.
In their opinion, the currently hotly debated cancellation of the agricultural diesel refund should have been prepared differently - for example by identifying alternatives and allowing other fuels.
Technology openness is required here.
In contrast to other parties, which still dreamed of a “Bullerbü romanticism in agriculture”, the FDP advocates a clear economic turnaround, without any fuss: “At the moment we are the only representatives of such a school of thought in the federal government,” said Bauer also the animal welfare tax as an “eyewash”, the sole aim of which is to reduce the number of livestock, which makes food more expensive but does not bring any profit for the producers, the farmers.
In the lively discussion, in which BBV district chairman Jakob Maier and district farmer Irmgard Posch also took part as guests, there were also questions about the attitude of the FDP in general.
So the question arose as to whether it wouldn't be better for the Liberals to leave the coalition now.
Bauer said: “Our entry into this alliance was not a love marriage, but we still wanted to try new things.
We hope to be able to bring about an economic turnaround in the remaining time of the legislative period.
There needs to be a liberal party like us in Germany.
In any case, it doesn’t help to simply bury your head in the sand.”
When Sabine Berger (CSU) asked how exactly less bureaucracy could be achieved in agriculture, Bauer proposed eliminating duplicate documentation.
She also sees the score evaluation system as proof of sustainable business very critically, she confirmed to another questioner.
He had complained that his business with livestock breeding and biomass production was “ranked worse than the local gas station, which still sells fossil energy.”