Traduction de «Size the holding » (Anglais → Français) :

However, these proposals do not take into account the high diversity of agricultural structures and size of holdings and their respective links to local, regional, national or international markets; the high diversity of processing industries and the different levels of competitiveness in relation to the markets and supply chains they are embedded in; the diversity of independent local retailers, markets, local food chains and semi-subsistence food supply systems which do not depend on market development; the high dependence on external and often imported inputs and the vulnerability of intensive agro-industrial producers in the food ...[+++]chain which are considered to be the most competitive on the world market ; the rapid disappearance of small and medium sized enterprises, retailers and shops, especially in disadvantaged rural areas; and the conflict between European competition rules and the intention expressed by the Commission to improve producers organisations' bargaining power so as to allow them to achieve a fair price for their production.

These are regions whose farming consists of small and medium-sized family holdings, based on land and pastures, regions that have considerable milk-producing capacity and which, because they did not have the necessary milk quota when they joined the Community, have undergone a Malthusian modernisation, which has led to the disappearance of tens of thousands of holdings.

the increase in the size of holdings in view of the expected reduction in support prices and the need to compete in a liberalised market must be compatible with the presence of a sufficient number of farmers to ensure proper countryside management;

11. Reaffirms the need to promote sustainable agricultural practices and to support the development of small and medium-sized agricultural holdings and local markets; calls on the Member States to allow freedom of choice as regards new technologies and to recognise the rights of states and individuals to refuse to grow genetically-modified plants by setting up GMO-free zones; calls, furthermore, on the States Parties to the FAO to declare a moratorium on the distribution of GMOs;

(12) Potato production is essential in the Canary Islands, for both economic and social and environmental reasons. The cultivated areas are situated in areas of average altitude where the difficult terrain and small size of holdings (terrace cultivation), together with the high prices of inputs, make for very high production costs. Specific aid is granted for growing potatoes for human consumption in order to support domestic production to satisfy the islands' consumption patterns. Abolition of the temporary measure restricting the deliveries of potatoes for human consumption during sensitive periods for the marketing of local production ...[+++] has left the sector very vulnerable.

The agricultural strand of the Posei programmes is a permanent key component. It is tailored to the structural handicaps of the outermost regions (topography and climate, remoteness, small size of holdings, etc.) and to the specific constraints experienced there (lack of economies of scale, economic dependence, very high production costs, etc.). It is financed by the EAGGF-Guarantee Section (around EUR 200 million per year) and is based on two types of measure in the main [1].