BRUSSELS—The European Commission on Thursday said it would expand financial and policy support to help achieve a goal for a quarter of Europe’s farmland to be organic by 2030. Organic farmland, which restricts chemical pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and genetically modified organisms, has expanded by more than 60 percent over the last decade in the European Union, to nearly 9 percent of the bloc’s agricultural area. The Commission on Thursday outlined plans to speed up this expansion and stir demand for organic products. Reaching a 25 percent organic share of farmland this decade would protect bees and biodiversity, the Commission said. The EU will spend 49 million euros ($57.94 million) on promoting organic products this year, 27 percent of its total budget for promoting EU agricultural products at home and abroad. The Commission said the EU’s farming subsidy programme, which is being reformed, will offer farmers 38-58 billion euros over 2023-2027 …
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