Reducing agricultural surpluses

Description

Reducing agricultural surpluses involves implementing measures to align food production more closely with market demand, thereby minimizing excess output that leads to waste, storage costs, and market distortions. Essential actions include adjusting planting quotas, incentivizing crop diversification, promoting alternative uses for surplus produce, and improving supply chain efficiency. These strategies aim to stabilize prices, support farmer incomes, and reduce environmental impacts associated with overproduction and disposal of unsold agricultural goods.

Implementation

Voluntary schemes in the UK to reduce agricultural surplus by taking land out of production have promoted farmers to enter into 20-year management schemes providing sites for rare wild flowers, birds and nature conservation generally.