Problems with the prices of agricultural products

Written by admin on Mar 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Agriculture, Agriculture Technology
What is the problem?

The prices at which farmers sell agricultural products are low. For example, barley and wheat have had a rise of 5 cents per kilo and in turn the products manufactured by these products have risen 10 cents a majority and so it is with most things. You pay little for the products it sells to farmers, but later, when buying what is done with these products, we see that the price has risen sharply.

Alternatives and opinions in Castilla y Leon

Some farmers in Leon, agriculture is sustained by subsidies (CAP) and should make it easier and help fewer people engage in agriculture because people do not want to work on this as it is hard work and the benefits

are minimal. Today the Spanish agriculture is sustained by government subsidies. The farm size is insufficient to sustain a family in a European country.

In general, farms are served by a family in which the use of family support are very important. Because farm prices are grossly underpaid. These problems also make it more and more people migrate to the city in search of a better life

Data and insights gathered in the region

Another case is known in the plain of Esla in which crops are grown mostly as peppers, tomatoes and so on. For example, tomatoes in our country are more expensive than in other less developed neighbors like Morocco there cheaply and more are also produced by climatic features. This is causing serious problems among farmers because they pay very little for the products and are not beneficial and people no longer know what to do in this aspect and many others for products that improve farm prices, but this also applies to the Most products and thank goodness there as the CAP subsidies to agriculture but would ruin our country and keep them from leaving fewer people in the villages.

Also at the affect the crop production products and fertilzantes, herbicides ... According to Montse Arias, "low-income farmers can not buy large quantities of fertilizers and other inputs, the big producers get discounts for buying in bulk. The poor can not get the price for their products that achieve the rich, whose status is much less desperate. "But it happens in very few countries and in Spain this can hardly see because the water is achieved in many places and in winter it rains a lot and this is beneficial for dry products such as barley and wheat that does need an artificial irrigation. In our region in summer most of the cultivation of the plain of Esla and Cea is irrigated alfalfa as they can be dry or irrigated which are packed by 1010 usually leave the package at € 5 because the rope and diesel is rising more and more but before being packaged have had to mow with a comb or a conditioner, Amaranada and let it dry out but should be early to pack them with some drizzle and not spoil the packages. some trailers are also used to collect and transport to the dehydration of the state as the UPA ASAJA ... Other crops are maize and sugar beet (both are irrigated).

This area is often watered at the foot because the land is flat, but are used pivots and sprinkler systems.

Corn chop forage usually in late September with the choppers as kemper 1200 or the self-propelled choppers carrying a trailer next to pick corn silage should be chopped and not to rot. Another way is to pick when dry to get the grain. The chopped corn is paid to 3 cents in the land and the grain of corn to 15 cents. Because it weighs less and leaving less kilos per hectare.

Our conclusion

Our view is that the government has to take action on the matter soon because prices are becoming worse and more unequal. Thus farmers are more angry that the products are paid little, if not for subsidies, discernment that "we should go for."

The products are becoming more expensive: up diesel tractors, balers, the conditioner, seeds, irrigation systems and products to farmers will be the same or less pay and no longer know what to do to solve this . This also affects the farmers, who feed them rise well made with agricultural products and very little change up the price of milk and meat they produce.


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