date:Jul 18, 2013
France should restructure its export system involving too many, mostly state-funded, organisations if it wants to reverse a trend that saw it fall to fifth place among world agrifood exporters, a Senate panel said on Wednesday.
The analysis coincides with the presentation of a 3-billion-euro government plan to cut wasteful subsidies in a country which has one of the highest levels of public spending in the developed world.
France was the world's second largest exporter of agricultural and food