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"en.20150609.11.2-170-500"2
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"With uncertain weather conditions, diseases, pests, exchange rates and other uncontrollable variables, farming is a volatile industry and becoming increasingly so. For this reason, a crisis reserve helps increase investor confidence, it supports our food security and keeps prices for farmers and consumers consistent over the medium term.
Due to its size, the EU is vulnerable to asymmetric shocks in the agricultural sector but it is this size that also allows the EU to pool its risk. For this reason, farmers, consumers and the market in between benefit from the crisis reserve.
However, the concept of pooled risk should also imply a shared contribution to the reserve. What we see with these proposals is an uneven distribution of contributions, if any contributions are made by farmers at all. Farmers in the UK are already being squeezed by downward pressure on prices and I believe it is too much to ask them to contribute more than their fair share to the reserve.
The Commission needs to review how the agricultural reserve is funded as well as the common agricultural policy as a whole."@en1
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