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湘潭翻譯公司關(guān)鍵字：Foreign policy of agricultural price support specific practices
(A) U.S. farm price support policies for specific practicesCurrent U.S. agricultural price system is the core of the government price intervention or indirect price support policies. Guiding principle of this policy is not to undermine the market mechanism to regulate the basic role of supply and demand of agricultural products, while agricultural surplus to ease as a result of the economic and social unrest. These include: (1) to "cheap rate" to support standards. (2) as the minimum guaranteed price of agricultural mortgage loans. (3) the target price system. (4) non-recourse loans. (5) storage or buffer stocks. (6) production and sales quotas. (7) to expand demand and food assistance programs. (8) inputs and labor subsidies. (9) Food Stamp Program.Support of current U.S. farm policy is the primary means of managing the number of financial subsidies combined. Government of the major agricultural products such as wheat, corn, cotton and so determine the target price, then the production of agricultural products if the market price is lower than the target price, the Government subsidies to farmers the difference between the two. There is no similar subsidies recourse loans. Agricultural Act of 1990, wheat, feed grain base lending rate of the last five years 85% of the average market price of rice and cotton base lending rate of the average price of 75% -85%. If the market price of the year less than the loan rate, the government must acquire agricultural loan ratio, which the farmers do not have to repay the loan. However, government subsidies are conditional, direct subsidies to farmers to enjoy all must participate in government programs and soil conservation tillage reduction plan: to have 7.5% of arable land lie fallow; another 15% of arable land are not subsidies.Need is worth mentioning that the 1996 farm bill radically overturned 60 years of evolving agricultural price support policies, and regulations to completely abolish the government in seven years to provide income for farmers and price subsidies, to make it completely for the world market. New law also eliminated the restrictions on crop acreage, farmers market, according to world demand for U.S. products to determine their own plant varieties and cultivation. The new law retains the basic non-recourse loans, but the method has been revised. To make
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