Denmark has become the only EU member state not to have an agriculture ministry.
Unveiling her new cabinet, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has scrapped the position and replaced it with a newly created ministry for nature and animal welfare.
Responsibilities for the portfolio will now be spread across five ministries.
Food and food security will fall under business, while fisheries will be included in the environment ministry’s brief with other elements divided out between the justice and transport ministries.
Social democrat Christian Rabjerg Madsen takes up the new nature and animal welfare role, having previously served as minister for the interior and housing until 2022.
The move comes following months of negotiations since the ballot in March.
'Pig election'
Ranked as sixth-largest pork exporter in the world, Denmark’s famous pig sector was firmly in the spotlight throughout the campaign – which was dubbed “the pig election”.
Environmental impact and animal welfare are the principal issues and a commitment to create a commission to “comprehensively restructure” the pig sector also feature in Denmark's programme for government.
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