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| | Agricultural policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The subsidies transfer some costs of production from producers to the government, allowing production at above-market costs. | | | About forty-nine percent of this amount was accounted for by political measures: 37 billion euros due to direct payments and 43 billion euros from consumers due to the artificially high price. | | | One rationale is that local production of organic produce by families in their own gardens for their own consumption is not taxed or regulated, and that little or no use of the energy-and-land-intensive transport system, or energy-and-labor intensive regulation system is required for these same people to sell the same product to neighbors. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy
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| | IV. DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION STATUS IN EGYPT |
| | Food subsidies relative to government expenditure decreased from about 97% in 1973 to 66% in 1980/81, to almost 47% in 1989 and from 98% to total subsidy in 1973 to 5% in 1988. | | | The implicit subsidy burden was estimated to have risen to L.E 13.5 billion by FY 1988/89 (Carr, D., 1990). | | | Agricultural exports, which were the major foreign exchange earnings sector before 1974 was placed by the oil in 1974 and declined from 40% in 1974-79 to 20% in 1980-86 (Figure 16). |
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| | Subsidies for rural aristocracy -DAWN - Business; November 21, 2005 |
| | Among the recipients for 2003 were the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mariann Fischer Boel, who received a total of $480,000; Minister for Education, Ulla Tornes ($655,000); and the Minister for Finance, Thor Petersen ($175,000). | | | Under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, his subsidy entitlement will remain intact except that the subsidy he receives for the cows will now be shifted the grasslands that he maintains. | | | Much of this research funding is of course helping countries like Denmark in exporting education to the developing countries as part of the bilateral trade agreements. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2005/11/21/ebr17.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Subsidy |
| | Subsidy, government payment intended to support a desirable enterprise or policy, usually one that is not viable or competitive under existing... | | | The agency administers operating- and construction-differential subsidies, to make up the difference between U.S. costs of building and operating... | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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| | SICE-Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas-Chapter 5, PART FOUR |
| | Accordingly, subsidies provided by a Member State to agriculture shall not involve transfers from consumers, or direct payments to producers or processors which would have the effect of providing price support to producers. | | | Any subsidy in favour of agricultural producers that cannot be shown to satisfy the provisions in Article 119 and Article 120, shall be subject to the provisions of Article 106 to Article 110 inclusive. | | | Notwithstanding the right to grant subsidies indicated in Article 118, a Member State shall not use such subsidies in a manner to distort the production of and intra-regional trade in the product or products benefiting from such subsidies. |
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| | EWG Report Green Acre$ |
| | These subsidies were on top of any profits these recipients earned from the sale of agricultural commodities, and do not include payments made under federal conservation, disaster or crop insurance programs. | | | Taxpayer subsidies for some of these operations no doubt amounted to little more than extra profits for farm operations that were already highly profitable, and that had no need for additional subsidies. | | | Congress recently authorized an additional $7.1 billion in the USDA budget, ostensibly to help the agency address the continuing economic crisis in the agricultural sector. |
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http://www.ewg.org/reports/greenacres/intro.html
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| | Free Trade Agriculture |
| | Agriculture is not the only group of plutocrats who are receiving taxpayer dollars. | | | If some congressman where to bring a bill to the house to terminate farm subsidies or part of these subsidies, I believe that bill could be passed even today. | | | That 90% of the Growers, Farmers, and Ranchers that get little or no government subsidy money, under every one of these people is a person who is pissed off at huge government payments that go to the large corporations. |
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| | The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 282 |
| | She mentioned the writing off of agricultural loans up to Tk 5,000 and exemption of land taxes for up to 25 bighas after the BNP government took office in 1992. | | | Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday pledged increased budgetary allocation and subsidy for agriculture in the coming fiscal and announced a number of other measures aimed at a "new revolution" in the farm sector. | | | She emphasised the need for increasing production side by side with maintaining quality of products to withstand the competition in the context of globalisation and market economy. |
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| | Agricultural subsidy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Currently (as of Nov. 2005), the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) forecast for the fiscal year 2005 is for a trade surplus of $4.5 billion with $62 billion in exports. | | | The main criticism of these programs is that they promote poverty in developing countries since those economies depend on their agricultural production and they can't compete with subsided and therefore low priced commodities. | | | An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers to supplement their income, help manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and bolster the supply of such commodities on international markets. |
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| | kickAAS |
| | The Cato Institure reckons that the cost of subsidies in the US is $146 per household each year. | | | It states: "The Senate Agriculture Committee just voted to extend the subsidies paid to growers of cotton, rice and other commodities until 2011, subsidies that were supposed to expire in the 2007 farm bill. | | | Europe's Commissioner for Agriculture, Mariann Fischer Boel has merely replied that the EU "will take account of this verdict" when reform proposals are published in June, according to a report in BusinessWeek They can do better than that. |
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| | The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 116 |
| | The 'subsidy superpowers' -- as the US and the EU are comically called -- account for 60 per cent of rich country agricultural support spending. | | | The amount is also said to be more than the total incomes of the 1.2 billion people in the world living on less than $ 1 a day. | | | This is roughly six times the aid that they put in the accounts of the developing countries. |
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/09/19/d30919020224.htm
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| | Agricultural Subsidy Procedures Facilitated by GIS |
| | Annual operational costs for such schemes are huge, and methods to improve efficiency by even 1 percent can have profound economic benefits. | | | The application for subsidies can now be theoretically done online, thus saving costs for printed materials and postage. | | | Agriculturalists in many developed countries rely heavily on subsidy payments to assist in maintaining viable commercial operations. |
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http://www.esri.com/industries/agriculture/business/subsidy.html
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| | APAC Weekly Articles - March 26, 2004 |
| | Some of the more obvious subsidies that are currently attracting the bulk of the attention are the ones that involve governmental check writing: Direct Payments, Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCP), Loan Deficiency Payments (LDP), and Marketing Loan Gains (MLG). | | | It can appear that various parties to the discussion of trade and subsidies pick and choose which factors they consider subsidies and which they ignore. | | | While the Direct Payments and CCPs are not directly tied to current production, they do reduce the risk that a farmer faces in any given year. |
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Oxfam calls for EU subsidy reform |
| | The European farm subsidy system should undergo urgent reform because it is "skewed in favour of rich landowners", according to the charity Oxfam. | | | A spokesman said that help through the CAP was not all financial, adding that the agency ensured payments went only to those who were eligible. | | | Phil Bloomer, head of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair Campaign, said: "These figures confirm what we already suspected: the EU's agricultural subsidy scheme is skewed in favour of the richest landowners and biggest companies. |
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| | agricultural subsidies -> U.S. Assistance Programs on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | The Agricultural Credits Act (1923) failed to solve the problem. | | | The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), also created in 1933, began making loans to farmers on agricultural products. | | | In its amended form, this act provided the framework for the major farm programs in effect since that time. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/agrisub_u.s.assistanceprograms.asp
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| | Providing subsidy on agricultural inputs |
| | When agriculture ministry approaches the finance ministry and the latter maintains a positive view towards the matter we can suppose that the finance ministry will provide a good fund for the purpose. | | | Finance Minister M. Saifur Rahman some days back said in an interview with a private television channel that the government might consider giving subsidy to farmers on account of diesel. | | | Because cost of agricultural production here is comparatively higher than in other countries. |
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| | EWG Issues Site Index |
| | June 2004 - Buyout of 1930s Subsidy Program Grants a Windfall to a Few -- Taxpayers will give at least $1 million to 462 individuals, companies or estates under a $9.6 billion buyout of Depression-era tobacco subsidy programs that was added to a corporate tax relief bill passed by the House. | | | February 1997 - Implications for Agriculture -- The new 'Freedom to Farm' subsidy contract payments that many farmers believe are guaranteed for the next 7 years will probably be slashed if Congress approves a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | | | February 1995 - Farm Subsidies and Private Property in Perspective -- Federal farm subsidies increased farm land values by $85 to $110 billion nationwide. |
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| | The de minimis level (below this level, a WTO member-country is not required to undertake any reduction commitment) is 10 per cent of the value of total agricultural production for both developing and developed countries. | | | WHATEVER support the Union Government is lending to the country's agriculture sector at present is fully WTO compatible and hence, | | | Under the Agreement on Agriculture of the World Trade Agreement (WTA), developing countries are required to reduce the Aggregate Measurement of Support towards agricultural subsidies over the benchmark level of 1986 by 13.3 per cent every year. |
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| | ONIC-ONIOL and SchlumbergerSema Announce Successful Modernization of the French Agricultural Subsidy Payment System |
| | Its IT system manages the annual subsidy payments of 5.2 billion Euros to 350,000 French farmers. | | | - Is responsible for national policy in the cereal crop sector - provides guarantees to registered collectors, food subsidies, market monitoring and forecasting. | | | In the year 2000, ONIC-ONIOL made the decision to adopt open systems technology, replacing its obsolete system, and entrusted the project to SchlumbergerSema for its consulting and complex systems integration expertise. |
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| | Public Policy, Economics & Strategy |
| | The key sectors explored for the pilot-study included Power and Water and Sanitation at the national level and in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka at the State level. | | | These were supplemented with analysis of data on crops, irrigation requirements and examination of linkages with financial and agriculture extension institutions to suggest a more consumer-focused and accountable interface mechanism in supply of power to agriculture. | | | Much of this work is unprecedented in India and could pave the way for addressing the crucial challenge of agricultural power subsidies in power sector reform in the country. |
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http://www.taru.org/services/public_policy/pubpol2.htm
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| | Is the Agricultural Subsidy Fair to Consumers? |
| | Students will need some background in subsidies, their origins and use. | | | Students can then research the use of subsidies currently, such as tobacco, corn, wheat, and milk price support. | | | Transport that to Maine and look at the state’s assistance to some of the industries. |
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| | G4 nations meet on WTO issues, fail on agricultural subsidy - News - Webindia123.com |
| | G4 nations meet on WTO issues, fail on agricultural subsidy - News - Webindia123.com | | | G4 nations meet on WTO issues, fail on agricultural subsidy | | | Trade Ministers from G-4 countries, who met at the Indian High Commission here to disscuss pending World Trade Organisation (WTO) issues, failed to make headway on the core issue of agicultural subsidy. |
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| | AEI - Short Publications |
| | President Chirac knows he will be the one hold-out against a removal of agricultural subsidies to help African exporters, so he needs a bargaining chip. | | | The British team who want both a climate agreement and a removal to agricultural subsidies (also proposed by Bush) hope that President Bush acquiesces on climate. | | | While Blair and Bush are making all the right friendly noises about the best deals for Africa, the resolution to this meeting is going to come down to two major compromises--France on agricultural subsidies and U.S. on climate change. |
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| | The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Dharmapuri News : Date extended for farm subsidy schemes |
| | He said farmers could avail themselves of subsidy on schemes including Alkaline Soil Reclamation scheme, Agricultural Mechanisation programme, micro irrigation system, subsidies for purchase of agricultural equipment and replacement of old motors. | | | DHARMAPURI: The last date for receipt of applications for various agricultural subsidy schemes proposed by the Department of Agricultural Engineering has been extended till September 20, Collector Sudeep Jain said here on Saturday. | | | Interested farmers should apply mentioning the scheme name, address, village, SF Nos, area, details of crop and electric motor, to the Assistant Executive Engineer, Agricultural Engineering Department, Collectorate, and the Agricultural Development Officer, Agricultural Extension Centre at Dharmapuri, Nallampalli, Pennagaram, Palacode, Karimangalam, Harur and Pappireddipatti on or before September 20. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/11/stories/2005091108760300.htm
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| | Oxfam America: News & Publications |
| | Home > What We Do > Campaigns > Agriculture > News and Publications |
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