State assistance to farmers
Sir,—The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Moyle, in an address to the Lincoln College Farmers’ Conference (“The Press,” July 10) said, “Give or take six months, the speed in reduction of assistance to agriculture equates with reduction on other areas.” Apart from a cut in Government assistance by 55 per cent in the June Budget, farmers have had to cope with huge increases in the cost of freight, fertiliser, petrol and diesel, electricity and replacement machinery. Every other item of Government expenditure, apart from forestry, showed an increase in that Budget. Farmers, unlike every other sector of the economy, must accept world prices for their products and therefore are not on a cost-plus system. It is time Mr Moyle and his colleagues got on with the politi-cally-painful measures needed to restore balance in the economy and then perhaps they can claim with some degree of honesty that they have been even-handed. — Yours, etc D. T. ARCHBOLD. Cheviot, July 10, 1985.
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