A tractor in a field in Germany. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 14Nils Annen, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, called for less meat to free up arable land amid a «food price crisis» due to the situation in Ukraine. Earlier, German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir urged Germans to eat less meat to fight Russia, which he says is allegedly using food supplies as a weapon. meat… However, it is important to point out that a very large part of the world's grain production… ultimately goes to animal feed production,» Annen said in an interview with Euractiv. According to the Secretary of State, the reduction in meat consumption in Germany and Europe can be helped to free up more arable land, including in countries from which meat is imported.»If we ate 30% less pork in Germa we would release about a million hectares of arable land,» he added. Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky earlier said that the country's authorities plan to sow 70-80% of the sown area this season.
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