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...cities are among the victims of a distorted and unbalanced economy dominated by foreign, largely North American, interests. Immense plantations, owned by American corporations in partnership with the handful of rich Nicaraguans and worked by agricultural workers some of whom earn less than $1 a day, produce coffee, bananas, cotton and beef for the import market. At the same time, peasants working tiny, inefficient plots of land (which often also belong to landlords) struggle to coax enough beans, rice and corn from the soil to feed their families, with perhaps something left over to sell in the local market. With...
...targets since 1973 have replaced the old-style support prices, under which the Government actually bought up the commodities and stockpiled them. The new target price would be increased as follows: on wheat from $2.05 per bu. to $3.10; on corn from $1.38 per bu. to $2.25; on cotton from...
...Boost the amount of the loans that the Government can make to wheat, corn and cotton raisers who hold their crops off the market while waiting for higher prices and extend the term of the loans to 18 months from the present twelve...
...increase in milk supports would raise consumer prices by 6? per gal. on milk and 15? per Ib. on butter, the Department of Agriculture estimates. The rise in target prices on cotton would immediately start Government payments flowing to farmers because the new target price would be above the present market level of about 40? per Ib. The rise could also cause some farmers who had been diverting land from cotton to soybeans to switch back again, thereby shrinking soybean supplies and possibly raising prices of the beans and also of cattle and hogs that are fed on them...
...Eastern Europeans are being forced to foot part of the bill. They will pay $3.3 billion for Soviet gas and oil this year compared with $1.2 billion in 1973. Furthermore, prices of oil and other key Soviet export commodities (nonferrous metals, iron, cotton) will now be reviewed each year and will be brought in line with world prices, perhaps by 1978. That will hurt Rumania...