EU grain mountain rises, sets policy dilemma

mkpdavies · 09-01-2005, 10:56 AM

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-1-2005_pg5_27

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HAMBURG: Farmers in the now 25-nation European Union may exercise the right to sell the EU up to 17 million tonnes of grains this marketing season, reviving the spectre of costly, subsidised grain mountains in the bloc.

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The EU supports farmers by guaranteeing to buy some crops at a minimum price in a scheme called intervention, lasting from November to May. If farmers cannot sell on commercial markets they have the right to sell INTO phpbb_intervention, and the EU ends up storing mountains of grain and other food which no one wants.

Seriously, how can the EU lecture any other nature on anything, when it runs such practices? We live in a sick world!

GIVE it to Africa for free and scrap the damned scheme!

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