A committee of influential MPs has claimed that the plan to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will burden farmers. Under the reforms, the farmers will have to face more red tape and they will fail to develop a profitable agricultural industry.

The reforms have been called by the government's Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee. The committee has criticized the EFRA for its poor policies on how improve the agriculture industry's profitability and resolve the issues of rising food prices.

MPs have urged the EFRA to focus on making the farmers more independent and self-supporting, against rising input prices and greater competition. The farmers of UK face greater competition from other countries that do not follow the EU standards of environmental protection or animal welfare.

MPs said that the government's desire to cut direct payments were not the best way to achieve their targets. The income of the framers has reduced to a significant extent.

A 72-page document produced by the MPs says that the first priority of the CAP should be to maintain the EU's food production with less dependence on direct support in the long term.