miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2011

Essay

 C.A.P stands for "common agricultural policy" this was set up in 1962 in Europe.
    When it started , some of the objectives were : to create one single market in which agricultural products move freely , to give financial support to farmers, to increase the average of field size , farm size and farmers income. In this Essay we are going to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the C.A.P.
     The advantages are the following: many people can have a job , so , more money enters , prices of things are not high , and therefore everyone can buy things; farmers , instead of having a life , a hardworking life , they have a "normal" life , and they have more free-time.
     The disadvantages of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are these: there was an rise in food prices , peripheral farm units were still very small and often uneconomic , there were high cost of subsidies , farmers spent insufficient time working in farms and ther was destructions of hedges to create larger fields destroyed  wildlife and increase the risk of soil erosion. The ones that weren`t involved in the C.A.P dindn`t suffered all this.
      As we can see, the C.A.P brought advantages and disadvanteges for the market.