Anthea McIntyre: "We have to ensure all our farmers can benefit from technological innovation"
Agriculture faces many challenges ranging from climate change to rising food demand due to population growth. On 7 June MEPs adopted an own-initiative report on how technological innovation could help to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way. Report author Anthea McIntyre, a UK member of the ECR group, answered questions about it during a live broadcast on the Parliament's Facebook page.
McIntyre insisted that innovation could be used for every type of agriculture: "We have to ensure all our farmers can benefit from technological innovation." She also favoured cooperation between farmers and scientists: “I want to very much see farmers involved in creating things, benefitting from technology, but also steering the way, actually identifying particular problems they’ve got. It’s not just in the lab.”
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Anthea McIntyre: "We have to ensure all our farmers can benefit from technological innovation"
Agriculture faces many challenges ranging from climate change to rising food demand due to population growth. On 7 June MEPs adopted an own-initiative report on how technological innovation could help to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way. Report author Anthea McIntyre, a UK member of the ECR group, answered questions about it during a live broadcast on the Parliament's Facebook page.
McIntyre insisted that innovation could be used for every type of agriculture: "We have to ensure all our farmers can benefit from technological innovation." She also favoured cooperation between farmers and scientists: “I want to very much see farmers involved in creating things, benefitting from technology, but also steering the way, actually identifying particular problems they’ve got. It’s not just in the lab.”
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