Destruction of surplus agricultural produce

When market conditions are unfavourable, perfectly good agricultural crops will not be harvested. Fruit are left to rot on the trees, or picked and disposed of in pits, and crops are ploughed back into the ground. This is usually because the prices to harvest and handle the crop are higher than the produce is worth in the marketplace. Low market prices may be the result of "overproduction" due to poor agricultural policy which has not regulated the acreage of that crop in response to the demand, or it may be the result of an unexpectedly good season. In response to fluctuating reserves of staple foods, such as grains, some agricultural departments give subsidies to farmers not to plant at all that year rather than flood the market with product which would lower the average price for all

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Localization of Production and Distribution

One problem associated with national and global agricultural production and distribution the unpredictability of supply and demand. A second problem is the cost associated with guaranteeing the produ...

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Production of Seeds,feed the angry "animals" of the worls

Use the goods to cultivate seeds, sell them or give them to developing country's. Especially it would be a good solution for so called crisis regions on earth where war destroyed parts of the food...

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