EU: Mastering challenges in wine growing together –

12/11/2024 | 3:45 p.m. | ID: 40473 | Department: Agriculture | Viticulture Mainz (agrar-PR) - The Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Viticulture, Daniela Schmitt, has invited leading representatives of the viticulture industry to the Ministry in Mainz for a top-level discussion on viticulture and exchanged views on measures to support the wine industry. The background to this is the current challenges facing the industry, in particular the oversupply of wine and the declining sales of wine worldwide, also due to changes in consumer behavior. "The close exchange with the wine industry is particularly important to me. At the top-level discussion, we exchanged views on important measures at EU, federal and state level, captured the mood and agreed on further possible steps. We have already implemented some measures to strengthen wine sales and curb the oversupply of wine in close cooperation with the industry in Rhineland-Palatinate. Other things need to be taken to Berlin and ...