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Towards Free Trade in Agriculture by Kirit S. Parikh, Günther Fischer, Klaus Frohberg, Odd Gulbrandsen (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Agriculture seems to be a difficult sector to manage for most governments. Developing countries face tough dilemmas in deciding on appropriate price poli eies to stimulate food production and maintain stable, preferably low, prices for poor consumers. Governments in developed countries face similar difficult deci sions. They are called upon to give income guarantees to farmers whose incomes are unstable and relatively low when compared to those in the nonagricultural sector. These guarantees often lead to ever-increasing budgetary outlays and unwanted agricultural surpluses. High prices make new investments and the application of new technologies more attractive than world prices warrant, and a process is set in motion where technological innovation attains amomenturn of its own, in turn requiring price policies that maintain their rates of return. Surpluses are disposed of with subsidies in domestic markets or in the international market. Price competition reduces the market share of other exporters, who may be efficient producers, unless they are willing to engage in subsidy competition. This lowers export earnings and farm incomes or depletes the public resources of developing c

Who reads Towards Free Trade in Agriculture?

Author

Kirit S. Parikh, Günther Fischer, Klaus Frohberg, Odd Gulbrandsen (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401735605

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Business, Economics