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18-07-2003, 12:52 PM

On Friday, in article
"Jim Webster" wrote:

"Oz" wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes

But let us look at it rationally.
1) there isn't a lot of point of them trying to do anything agricultural
because even if they get the land right and yields up they are still just
subsistance peasants producing commodity product. I cannot imagine there
being a market for Tajik grain beer or melons.

It's cotton. Takes all the essential irrigation water, trashes the
environment. Ex-soviet megafarms, apparently.

I've seen the Aral sea from the air:-((

I'm surprised it's still visible.

That is what you have to break away from. The grinding poverty which doesn't
actually give you time to get away from your grinding poverty

This was the weakness of the CAP. For generally good reasons, it tried
to keep people in farming. When those reasons went away, the EU
politicians couldn't break the habit, and the whole mess of the MTR
comes from politicians being scared that people don't want to farm.

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