Robert Habeck expects heavy losses in agriculture from drought

The fields are burning, they can only cut grain in their fields: Farmers in Germany have been complaining for weeks about the persistent drought. The Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Agriculture, Robert Habeck, spoke of a "real epidemic year for agriculture". The peasants, "who were not doing well economically before," should expect "dramatic losses," said the head of the green party of the newspaper "Die Welt". "We have bright landscapes."

Breeding in its very intensive form reaches its ecological limits. "In winter, the manure can not be applied, in summer there is a shortage of food, we must reduce livestock." Climate change requires, "that we develop income models for farmers, beyond the previous system of" wax or sweet ", in order to" produce more, have more animals, or give up work. "

A shift to land-based farming at stake:" A farm should only have as many animals as it can basically feed on the yield of its land. "Farmers who have fewer cows would receive a higher premium so that "industrial growth with too many animals in a small space and too much manure needs including the corresponding nitrates in groundwater" can be stopped