World agricultural prices are falling; farmers are being squeezed by increased competition. Three or four years ago prices were at an all-time high. Now loans made on the basis of those conditions are prompting despair. This is the background to the Government's announcement of extra money ...
The subsidies are designed to cushionfarmersagainst unpre-dictable weather. 这些补助金用于减轻农民因难以预测的恶劣天气而遭受的损失。 柯林斯例句 Mostfarmershave bank managers breathing down their necks. 大部分农场主的一举一动都受到银行经理们的密切关注。
European farmers are protesting for similar reasons, but Maltese farmers said they are particularly disadvantaged because everything they use has to be imported, adding shipping expenses to an already long list of costs. "Subsidies are good and help farmers, but what we need most is some market ...
Farmers in the developing world hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little choice: they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the U. S. and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed ...
find parents out on the front lines very aware their children are going down for the count. And I go to those shops, if there are any, or out to the fields to see what they can get, and they cannot obtain the nutrition. Even if they know what they need to do, it's not ...
I've heard this comment. ‘My dad never saw a need to plow up that pasture. It's never been farmed before, but I'm going to do it because I need to increase my farm income. We're going to get rid of the cows and we're going to farm the hills.’ That is sad to see. But...
But compensation should not serve as direct subsidies for food prices or inputs. Provinces in eastern, central and southern China such as Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong and Fujian, as well as the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region can boa...
Dr Swaminathan, however, has interestingly described the MSP as being more efficient than subsidies. For farmers, the MSP helps them make ends meet. FARMERS’ INCOMES “When everyone in society has the expectation of an assured income, I can’t understand why we object when the farmer asks ...
The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, butselling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. But, do we really need industrial agriculture to fe...
Hill farmers will need subsidies to the downs and moors or turn over to coppice timber for wood burners and lose the views. Small dairy farmers will need help to continue and grants for local quality cheeses could help. Instead of £100m grants for £57k electric taxis, how about a ...