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Government intervention in West European farming has been spurred on by various motives. In the immediate post-war period the concern was to expand output. Now many governments are trying to cut it back. Other measures have aimed not only at the social objective of raising agricultural incomes, which lag behind those of other sectors of the economy, but have also attempted to keep food prices at reasonable levels for consumers and to make agricultural production more efficient.
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Clout, H.D. (1971). Agricultural Change in Western Europe. In: Agriculture. Studies in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01128-5_3
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