Denmark dissolves agriculture ministry, reallocates duties to five ministries

The Danish government announced that the Ministry of Agriculture will be abolished and its responsibilities distributed among five separate ministries. The new Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare, led by Christian Rabjerg Madsen, will take over most of the former agriculture portfolio, while the Ministry of Business will handle food and food‑security issues, the Ministry of Environment will assume fisheries, and the ministries of Justice and Transport will receive secondary competencies.

Denmark thus becomes the only EU country without a dedicated agriculture ministry. The reform follows a €1.04 billion state aid programme that pays farmers to reduce agricultural production for climate goals, and includes plans to create a commission to comprehensively restructure the pork sector, of which Denmark is the world’s sixth‑largest exporter of pork.