Luc Vanoirbeek, secretary general of VBT

Climate is ‘top challenge’ facing European producers

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The secretary general of Belgium’s VBT trade body told the NFU Conference that climate is making risk management and disease control increasingly difficult, as competition with North Africa intensifies

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