Mansholt plan

The Mansholt Plan noted the limits to a policy of price and market support.

Revisiting the Mansholt Plan would be a good place to start.

The Mansholt Plan was a 1960s idea that sought to remove small farmers from the land and to consolidate farming into a larger, more efficient industry.

In early 1964, however, relations worsened again when the Six failed to adopt a scheme, known as the 'Mansholt Plan' to advance more rapidly on the CAP.

Ultimately, the Mansholt Plan was reduced to just three European directives which, in 1972, concerned the modernisation of agricultural holdings, the cessation of certain agricultural activity and the training of farmers.

It is 32 years since Sicco Mansholt, the Commissioner responsible for agriculture from the time the Commission was formed until 1972, presented his draft reform of the common agricultural policy, the Mansholt Plan.