HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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want to donate the surplus to LDCs
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they don’t do that because we are a free market system
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The government plays no role in agricutlure
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to compensate for overproduction to prevent inflation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Governments have employed various measures to maintain farm prices and incomes above what the market would otherwise have yielded. They have included tariffs or import levies, import quotas, export subsidies, direct payments to farmers, and limitations on production.
Detailed explanation-2: -Agricultural subsidy means the benefit given to the farmers for using new and advanced technologies and producing more food grains. They provide an incentive for adoption of new technology by the farmers specially the small farmers. It assures farmer against the risk of new technology.
Detailed explanation-3: -It Stimulate agricultural production. Compensate for high costs of transport from port or factory to farms that raise costs of inputs. Improve soil quality and combat soil degradation (in the case of fertilizer).