Chinese Agricultral Policy--Farmer Brown Gets Snookered

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Mon Apr 24 07:13:28 PDT 2000


"Exported to Death -- The Failure of Agricultural Deregulation" Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute

"In 1996, free market Republicans and budget-cutting Democrats offered

farmers a deal: accept a cut in farm subsidies and, in return, the

government would promote exports in new trade deals with Latin

America and in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and eliminate

restrictions on planting decisions. In economic terms, farmers were

asked to take on risks heretofore assumed by the government in

exchange for deregulation and the promise of increased exports. . . .

http://epinet.org PDF version available gratis

mbs


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Quite a bit of the hot air on this China PNTR deal has been directed at the American farmer. The corporate propagandists have been painting the China PNTR deal as a bonanza for the American farmer. Guess what just a cursory read of the pro-PNTR propaganda from the Agriculture Department blows big holes in this pro-China PNTR hype.

I wonder who else has caught this?

Tom Lehman



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