date:Jul 31, 2012
gate milk price (un-elastic), and political regulation - Under such conditions the EU competitiveness is highly influenced by political protection. The demand to reduce support system costs, agri-policy progressively has reformed towards open market rules and the production quota system has to stop by 2015. Average world milk price increases are making farming more attractive in low-cost countries and India should take advantage of this. To do this and to quickly gain competitiveness, higher ef