UPDATE: FRANCE: Bongrain backs Paris talks on milk
By: just-food.com | 19 May 2009
Bongrain, one of the dairy groups at the centre of the milk row in France, has backed government moves for mediated talks with farmers - but insisted the fall in prices in April came after a jump in prices last year.
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Bongrain, one of the dairy groups at the centre of the milk row in France, has backed government moves for mediated talks with farmers - but insisted the fall in prices in April came after a jump in prices last year.
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