In his weekly vlog, MEP Francis Zammit Dimech recalls how since being elected to the European Parliament, he has been asked by farmers to raise their concerns at EU Level owing to the fact that no Maltese MEP is member of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Over the past weeks he met several farmers and producers to obtain their views. Zammit Dimech recalled how farmers have expressed disappointment with respect to delay for payments. Young farmers also explained their difficulties to have access to terrain and on the need to protect arable land from development. Farmers also called for the need to obtain a fair and equitable compensation for their produce and for a level playing field for all farmers.

Zammit Dimech raised such issues in the report on the future of food and farming which recommendations were adopted.

In the report Zammit Dimech also insisted that special consideration should be granted to farmers who face extra costs due to specific constraints linked to islands, outermost regions, and other less favoured areas. Zammit Dimech pledged to keep on listening to the concerns of farmers and be their voice at the European Parliament.