2024-03-22 12:54:00
Regulatory pressure
At the urgent request of the Netherlands, the European Commission will make plans to authorize a fertilizer substitute made from regular manure. The cabinet is pleased with this commitment, after a series of setbacks for Dutch agriculture in Brussels.
The Netherlands, which is still feeling the pinch of the nitrogen problem, thinks it can kill several birds with one stone with the fertilizer alternative Renure. Farmers can use the manure from cows and other livestock that they are currently in need of. Moreover, they need less fertilizer from abroad. In the long run, the Netherlands also managed to win over a large number of other EU countries to the idea. But the European Commission, which was supposed to make proposals to allow Renure, did not do much about it for a long time.
That has now changed, the Ministry of Agriculture said. It is still unclear how long it will take before farmers can actually use Renure, but the ministry calls it “a positive signal”.
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