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by wikipedia on 2005-04-01 05:36:17Subsidies encourage organic farming (wikipedia.org) and precision agriculture (wikipedia.org), often combined in the idea of the "garden economy". When the USSR was unable to feed itself it was often observed that over half of the local food supply was coming from small private gardens growing native varieties with organic means, despite the fact that the government had done everything in its power to discourage such small-scale organic entrepreneurs.
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by anonymous on 2005-04-20 00:02:59
In the UK the statements about encouraging organic farming seem very far from reality. We have seen a large growth in the size of holding, with the smaller producers sidelined. This has led to the wide scale mono-cropping with crops grow just for subsidies. Often organic farmers are not eligable for some of the subsidies. The Common Agricultural Policy of the EU is now undergoing radical changes with emphesis on promoting good pratice rather than per-crop subsidies.
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