BRUSSELS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- European Union ministers have been accused of protecting their own sugar farmers over those in developing countries, aid charities say.
Aid charities say developing countries such as Jamaica, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Cuba and Guyana might have to reduce sugar production and could cease exporting into the EU, reported the Daily Telegraph Saturday.
EU ministers agreed to reduce the sugar subsidy by 36 percent over four years in a deal that will pay European farmers 60 percent of their likely fall in income as compensation.
The compensation to European farmers is expected to cost in the billions of dollars. However, farmers in the Caribbean, Africa and Pacific countries, will get only $47 million, the charities say.
