The European Union is aiming to boost dairy exports to the Far East and parts of Africa as its seeks to cope with increased production and the loss of sales to Russia, EU farm commissioner Phil Hogan said in an interview on Tuesday. Hogan said there had been a 5-1/2 percent increase in milk production in the EU last year which coincided with the loss of a key export market, Russia. Russia banned imports of dairy products from the EU last August as part of its response to EU sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis. “It (the situation with Russia) is not going to get better in the short term,” Hogan, an Irish politician who became EU farm commissioner in November last year, said. “In my view therefore we have to look outside the conflicts and the geopolitical regions like Russia, Ukraine to see where […]