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Prices and production costs of six field crops : wheat, maize, rapeseed, sunflower, beets and potatoes
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Because of technical progress and the increasing internationalisation of certain markets, production prices of the main farm products continue to fall in constant euros.
Consequently French farmers must master their production costs in order to maintain their competitiveness and to ensure the long-term survival of their farms. In 2004 for the cereals and oilseeds presented here, the production price is less than the cost. Faced with declining prices, the Common Agricultural Policy, reformed in 1992 and again in 1999, guarantees net margins for cereals such as wheat and maize, and oilseeds such rapeseed and sunflowers, while adjusting the volume of production. On a very volatile international sugar market, sugar beets have so far benefited from guaranteed prices on production quotas. Regulated by the market, potatoes are not subsidised.
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