CSU on agriculture

The CSU wants to promote regional food, regardless of whether it is produced organically or conventionally. To do so, the value-added tax on these products is to be cut permanently. Cafeterias, daycare centers and schools are to serve more regional products.

The CSU wants to promote food from the region. The tax on this food should go down. In daycare centers and schools, half of the food should be regional. Everyone should decide for themselves what to eat.

For the party, regional origin matters more than whether food is organic or conventional. It wants to support regional marketing and loosen the rules for direct sales by farms. Company cafeterias are to give priority to regional and seasonal food, and at least half of the meals in daycare centers and schools should come from the region. A school subject called "Alltagskompetenz" (everyday skills) is to teach knowledge of and appreciation for farming. The CSU rejects bans on food choices, for meat as well as for vegetarian and vegan dishes.

The CSU wants to preserve family farms and relieve them of regulations and levies. It calls for less red tape, a halt to new burdens and tax exemption for agricultural diesel and farm machinery. It rejects requirements to set land aside and to reduce livestock farming.

The CSU wants to protect family farms. Farmers should have fewer rules and less paperwork. Diesel for tractors should be tax-free. Farmers should decide about their own fields.

According to the platform, new rules from Berlin and Brussels cancel out the state's financial support for farming. The CSU does not want agriculture and forestry to be made subject to the trade tax. The fertilizer ordinance is to become workable in practice and exempt farms that protect water from extra requirements. The party supports livestock farming, including Kombihaltung (combined tethering and pasture), and opposes quotas or smaller herds. It rejects set-aside of farmland imposed from above. The Bavarian agriculture ministry is to take over all responsibilities for nutrition and food.