Country Matters: Set-aside? It's a waste of space

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: July 2, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

YOU will not easily find anybody round here with a good word to say about agricultural set-aside, the policy under which the Government pays farmers to take land out of production in the hope of reducing surpluses. In the six years since set-aside was introduced, I have never met anybody who thought it was the right solution to a problem whose existence everybody admits.

Villagers loathe set-aside for having helped to put them out of work. If a farmer with 1,000 acres can pick up pounds 18,600 in cash for letting 150 acres lie idle, he will need fewer hands, if any, to work the remaining 850. ...

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