An eye-opener from the Chinese
SIR— That China has decided to give subsidies to its farmers is a good thing.
SIR— That China has decided to give subsidies to its farmers is a good thing.
It should open the eyes of other developing countries which always want to blame all their agricultural sector problems on subsidies in developed countries.
I have always asked that, if subsidising the American and European farmer lowers cotton and other products prices, how would they account for the low world coffee prices which is not grown in the developed countries.
There is need to re-organise the agricultural sector in many developing countries in a way that looks at the interests of the farmers and smoothens and removes such negative factors as corruption, excessive bureaucracy and greed.
The developing countries have got another enemy in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Sorry!
Muganga Kizito
Michigan, USA
It should open the eyes of other developing countries which always want to blame all their agricultural sector problems on subsidies in developed countries.
I have always asked that, if subsidising the American and European farmer lowers cotton and other products prices, how would they account for the low world coffee prices which is not grown in the developed countries.
There is need to re-organise the agricultural sector in many developing countries in a way that looks at the interests of the farmers and smoothens and removes such negative factors as corruption, excessive bureaucracy and greed.
The developing countries have got another enemy in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Sorry!
Muganga Kizito
Michigan, USA