"If base prices don't rise, I fear this may well be the last generation of local Belgian growers"
Belgian farmers are struggling. "There are all kinds of new environmental and financial rules. Try and find your way through all that as a farmer. And if that's all not enough, there are issues with sales and pricing," begins Nico Vandevannet of the organic farm De Levende Aarde. He is trying to navigate these challenges.
This short-chain company has a roughly five-hectare
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