Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-22-Speech-2-297"
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"The latest developments on the global markets of agricultural products have generated a situation that few governments are prepared to deal with. The spectacular price increases, especially for basic cereals, risk starvation for millions of people.
This new reality should receive an answer from governments and European institutions.
This new level of agricultural prices presents new opportunities for producers, including for those of the EU Member States. In Romania, 40% of the population live in a rural environment, many of them being agricultural producers.
The new realities of the markets of agricultural products represent a chance for them to improve their economic results and, implicitly, to increase their living standard.
Unfortunately, the agricultural segment reacts very slowly to price changes on global markets. Small producers deal with heavy bureaucracy and are disadvantaged when negotiating purchase contracts against big chains of distributors with dominant positions on the market.
The EU should support small agricultural producers in order for them to benefit from higher income from their work. The access of small agricultural producers to the markets should be facilitated and global distributors should be subject to transparent regulations, which would prevent anti-competitive policies."@en1
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