Question

Using complete sentences, summarize three arguments against agricultural subsidies.

Answer 1

Arguments in favour of Subsidy :

• It encourages farmers to adopt intensive cultivation which ensures increase in food grain Production.

•The number of small and marginal farmers in a country is large who are unable to buy high price inputs. therefore subsidy on inputs is necessery.

•Subsidy is helpful in reducing disparaties of income among rich and poor farmers.

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Arguments Against Subsidy :

•Government has to bear a large economic burden through increase in budgetary deficit.

•Subsidy has given more benefits to rich farmers which has resulted in income inequalities among farmers.

•Subsidy should be phased out as the objective of encouraging farmers for intensive cultivation has been served. Subsidies were granted by the government to encourage the adoption of HYVS technology which had widely been adopted.

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Answer 2

Arguments for and Against of Subsidies in Agriculture ... An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers and ... to the role that these subsidies play in stimulating development of any country through ... iii. Input subsidisation also avoids raising food (and raw material) prices, thus ...

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