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Decoupled Agricultural Policy and the Lack of Production Alternatives
Author(s) -
Bollman Ray D.,
Tomiak Monica
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1988.tb03280.x
Subject(s) - production (economics) , commodity , agriculture , agricultural productivity , business , payment , government (linguistics) , census , economics , natural resource economics , geography , microeconomics , finance , population , demography , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
Summary Overall, only a small proportion of geographic‐specific production (for the selected commodities) are in areas that are highly specialized in that commodity. The large proportion of production in nonspecialized regions suggests that other production opportunities do exist. Thus, a “decoupled” agricultural policy would not necessarily mean that producers receiving a decoupled “government payment would be constrained by geographic factors to continue their original production pattern. We recognize, however, that others may wish to select different commodity groups when analyzing the availability of production alternatives. We suggest that census data do provide one way for determining the extent to which a decoupled” agricultural policy may in effect lock in the existing production pattern.