Category: Agriculture
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Why Blacklisting Sub-Production Cost Pricing Will Make Farmers Poorer
Recently the European farmers and Agri-worker organizations sent an open letter to the European Commission ‘demanding’ that the selling of farm produce at below input prices be added to the blacklist of practices defined in the Unfair Trading Practices (UTP) directive. Effectively, setting a price floor on farm produce. The stated intent of this request…