Farm subsidy failures condemned
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The government is criticised by MPs  for the failure to pay EU subsidies to thousands of farmers on time.
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Taking a hard line in W.T.O. talks, Kamal Nath, Indiaâs minister of commerce and industry, is pushing for big cuts in Western farm subsidies.
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Government subsidies can be a real drag.
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Rural colleges need a fairer funding deal to prevent the closure of courses, ministers are told.
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As subsidies increase despite higher incomes for big farms, some say that the subsidy system has never made less sense.
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The cost of future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth may have to be met by the industry, farmers are being told.
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The House voted Monday to protect aid to farmers who convert to environmentally sound practices. The measure, now on its way to President Bush, would block the Agriculture Department from tapping some of the funding for administrative expenses. The USDA's use of program money for overhead costs farmers about &#36;150 million a year that could help them learn farming methods that protect air, water and wildlife, said Environmental Defense spokesman Scott Faber.
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) expressed disappointment with today's House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management markup of H.R. 2419, the 2007 Farm Bill.
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Craig Barrett of Intel said the $20 billion the US annually spends on farm subsidies should be spent on education and technology. He asked, &quot;What do you think the industry of the 21st century is going to be?
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By Steve Dube  Since foot-and-mouth and BSE farm profits have slumped, writes Country and Farming Editor Steve Dube.
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Debt campaigners attending this weekâs annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have expressed disappointment and outrage over the failure of the
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The Senate Agriculture Committee, under pressure to make changes in decades-old subsidy programs, voted yesterday to offer farmers an alternative safety net that lawmakers said will provide better protection against falling incomes and will save as much as $4 billion over the next five years.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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SHELBY, Miss. -- From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.
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The World Trade Organisation said that existing reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy fell short of liberalising farming and called for more cuts in support for EU farmers.
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Government efforts to tackle child poverty are failing to help poor parents who work, a think tank says.
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Setting the stage for a contentious congressional debate over farm subsidies, a House panel voted unanimously yesterday to extend for five years the current system of payments to farmers and rejected a series of proposed changes.