Farmers backbone nation supported ensure a constant high-quality food supply citizens. Dairy farms, examples, assistance government form subsidies order remain competitive continue supply needed dairy products.
Farmers in today's context
Agriculture is the oldest occupation on Earth and the first and still most important means of supporting life. Agriculture was initially manifested through hunting and gathering of wild fruit and vegetable, to gradually evolve into an organized action of land cultivation with the use of developed tools and techniques.
Up until the Industrial Revolution, the cultivation of land was the most common human activity and the primary source of food sufficiency. Nevertheless, as machines and equipments were developed, as the steam engine was created and as more and more factories were opened, the people migrated from the rural sites to the urban locations, in search of better lives. Agriculture as such was seconded by work in factories, which came to occupy the entire time and energy of the new urban population. While the rates of urbanization have decreased, the global tendency is that of a sustained migration from the rural to the urban sites.
Another global trend is that of a decrease in the interest in agricultural activities. Within the less developed and emergent countries, agriculture remains an important sector, but the general trend within the more developed economies is that of a decreasing emphasis on agriculture in favor of an increasing emphasis on services. In a numeric presentation, the figures are alarming:
Out of the total $74.43 trillion of global outpour, only 5.8 per cent is generated by agriculture, with 30.8 per cent being generated by industry and a staggering 63.4 per cent being generated by services
At the level of the labor force, once dominated by agriculture, only 37.3 per cent of all individuals are...
The most important of them is represented by
global warming and
pollution, which reduce the quality to the soil as well as that of the waters, increase the
temperature, create landslides and damage the crops. In a context of decreasing interest for agriculture, combined with the environmental threats facing the world, the need to support agriculture becomes more and more dramatic.
The problems which face the agricultural field have to be addressed in a quick and efficient manner and the rationale for this necessity is given by the fact that the agricultural products remain the sole source to feeding the population. And the importance of agriculture is even more so important when the global
population is increasing and the current sources of food seem insufficient.
In this context then, it becomes obvious why the farmers represent the backbone of the nation and why they need to be supported in their efforts to ensure a constant and high-quality supply of food for the citizens. Governments and societies across the globe have intensified their efforts in supporting their domestic farmers, but the situation has often materialized in accusations of unfriendly competition. In order to best understand the situation, it is first necessary to look at David Ricardo's
theory of the
comparative advantage.
The economist argued that each country is characterized by its specific advantage, such as a particular geographic positioning, an abundance of specific resources, cost efficiencies and so on. He then argued that in this context, one country finds it easy to produce a certain commodity, while it is difficult for it to produce another commodity. According to Ricardo, the countries should produce those products for which…
