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Harkin also points to comments made by University of Missouri's Pat Westoff who says in a Reuters report that since crop support acreage bases have not been adequately updated, in recent times, most crops have larger acreage bases than actual plantings. The Democrat Senator, from Iowa, says the savings could then be used to make sure subsidy funds are there when farmers need them. Senator Harkin says, "I'm 99pc sure you would have a savings" if the bases were updated.

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The quantity of goods sold at the monthly government-organized produce fairs demonstrates how Cuba s food situation has eased 15 years after widespread shortages were sparked by the Soviet Union s collapse and an end to economic subsidies from the Kremlin. HAVANA Hundreds of trucks overflowing with plantains, sweet potatoes and onions converge on the Plaza of the Revolution each month as farmers sell produce to tens of thousands of people. The quantity of goods sold at the monthly...

Consequently, rice importation reduced from two million tonnes, in 2003, to less than one million tonnes in 2005, with a corresponding decline in the amount of foreign exchange spent on rice imports. UNTILL recently, local rice was largely shunned in preference for imported cereal because of its poor quality, until the Federal Government slammed a ban on rice imports and imposed a 10 per cent levy on such imports. PrOpCom is a market-driven intervention programme that facilitates...

ONE of the nation's key water experts has called for a permanent system under which cotton and rice farmers would phase down production during drought years. He said farmers producing crops such as cotton and rice would find it more difficult to operate continually every year, especially as climate change brought more extremes in weather patterns. Cotton Australia chief executive Adam Kay said farmers were already responding to the seasons, with planting rising and falling with water...