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EU plans to ease crop rotation rules as global food risks mount

FILE PHOTO: A French farmer harvests wheat in Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, near Cambrai, France, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

The European Commission on Friday proposed a temporary suspension of EU crop rotation rules to increase cereal production and help head off a global food security crisis due to the impact of the war in Ukraine.

The European Union executive said in a statement that its plan, which followed a request from the bloc's member states, said the short-term derogation would put 1.5 million hectares of land back into production compared to today.

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