On the agenda are key issues including farming incomes, sustainable agricultural practices, technological innovations and competitiveness, which will be discussed in advance by the European Union's agriculture ministers at their meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
Grumblings in the Dutch farming sector bubbled to the surface in June 2022, when the government unveiled plans to cut nitrogen emissions by reducing the country's herd of four million cows by nearly a third, and possibly shut some farms. Farmers said the move would ruin their livelihoods.
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