10 Amendments of Krisztina MORVAI related to 2011/2114(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas total input costs for EU farmers climbed on average by almost 40 % between 2000 and 2010, while farmgate prices increased on average by less than 25 %, according to Eurostat; whereas the increase in input costs within that decade reached 60 % for energy and lubricants, almost 80 % for synthetic fertilisers and soil improvers, over 30 % for animal feed, around 36 % for machinery and other equipment, almost 30 % for seeds and planting stock and nearly 13 % for plant protection products and pesticides; whereas, however, this trend accelerated at the beginning of the 1990s with the consolidation of the neoliberal agricultural policy;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, especially in the livestock sector, costs are also rising due to phytosanitary, hygiene and food security requirements, as a result of which the competitiveness of European producers will further decrease in comparison with those in third countries, who do not have to comply with these strict requirements;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas on average 42 % of total water supply in Europe is used by agriculture (Greece 88 %, Spain 72 %, Portugal 59 %) and whereas costs of irrigation and drainage have substantially increased as a result of freshwater depletion and unsustainable management and are expected to rise further due to climate change;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas producers practising mixed farming make far greater use of the possibilities inherent in their holdings such as producing their own feedstuffs, crop rotation, using organic manure, mechanical weed control, etc. and can thus significantly reduce their dependence on external supplies of artificial fertiliser, soil improvers, pesticides and weed-killers as the prices of these rise;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas there is considerable potential in farming for saving energy and costs through improved energy efficiency and local renewable energy production (especially wind, solar, biogas, plant oil as fuel, use of waste products, etc.);
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to encourage improved, sustainable agronomic practices and agricultural resource management, with the aim of reducing input costs and nutrient wastage and increasing innovation, resource efficiency and sustainability within farming systems;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses in particular the need for a European Food Prices Monitoring Tool which would deliver better transparency on input price development and allow farmgate prices to be linked to production costs and would also highlight the deficiencies in the agricultural and trade policies and other features requiring intervention;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enable producers, in an effort to replace fossil energy, to provide fuel for their machinery in the form of plant oil made from oilseeds which they grow themselves, as well as feeding it, as a by-product rich in protein and other nutrients, to animals, thereby significantly reducing both their dependence on fossil energy and their input costs in terms of fuel and feedstuffs;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Repeats its call to include crop rotation and crop diversity in an EU-wide list of ‘greening’ measures to be rewarded within the CAP, given the positive effect the former have on climate change mitigation, soil and water quality and farmers’ finances (with significantly reduced use of fertilisers, soil improvers, plant protection products and pesticides which will reduce input costs for farmers), and to encourage a move to organic farming, which resolves the questions of feedstuff replacement, weed control and plant protection from its own resources and therefore depends less on input cost variations than traditional agriculture, so that consumers will be willing to pay more for controlled organic products;