VVD: Staghouwer must force more agricultural innovation in Brussels
Member of Parliament Thom van Campen (VVD) believes that Minister Staghouwer of Agriculture (ChristenUnie) should make a case in Brussels for a larger toolbox with regard to innovation in rural areas. “Many machines that replace fertilizer may not be used by Brussels,” he wrote in Sven on Friday morning at 1. ‘I think that’s so beach’. Van Campen often sees farmers encountering this problem in practice. ‘A farmer who takes organic manure from his stable and wants to spread it over his field is held to very strict standards. Everything he gets higher up has to be and that costs a lot of money’.
According to Van Campen, this allows farmers to still use fertilizer for their fields. ‘And the production of fertilizer produces a lot of Co2. This is a Brussels rule that does not look at agricultural practice. The minister really needs to work harder on this in Brussels’. The VVD Member of Parliament has the conversation with Sven Kockelmann on the morning after the vigorous and occasionally about the House of Representatives debate. ‘Last week I’ve been thinking: guys, what the hell have we ended up in’, he looks back. “But I hope that, according to the Dutchman, we can meet again, because there is a lot to discuss.”
Map of Van der Wal
Van Campen finds the now familiar ‘map’ by nitrogen minister Van der Wal (VVD), which shows the reduction targets per area, ‘incredibly inconvenient’ in retrospect. That map only discusses the emissions of the farmers, and the role of mobility and aviation must also be mapped out. The government has already said it will do so.