What billionaire overlord? Irish agriculture is made up of over 100,000 independant farms, and a each farmers income is on average about €40-50k.
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Qwel@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoRegardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% revenue loss
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure:
Sustainable Food Systems Ireland
- However, Ireland continues to be the largest net exporter of Beef in the Northern Hemisphere
- There are approximately 137,500 family farms in Ireland with an average size of 32.4 hectares per holding according to the Farm Structure Survey of 2016.
The report, highlights that average farm income is forecast to reach €48,500 in 2025
The scale of our farming output relative to our domestic population of 4.9m people mean that Ireland exports some 90% of its net beef output, making Ireland the largest beef exporter in Europe and one of the largest in the world (Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, 2019). Similarly, 85% of dairy output is exported.
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This isn’t exactly what I was searching for, I was more interested in the “independant farms” part
In France, most “family ran” farms work on rented land and under an exclusivity contract that forces them to sell all their production to a single company. This leads to a situation where the few billionaires that buy food from everyone get to set the prices at which they buy different crops (and therefore what the farmers produce), and whether to export it. In other news, France is exporting wine while malnutrition rises and the major food charity is running out of fund as the demand increases. The government has stepped in to fund the charity, but still, we end up prioritizing exporting alcohol over feeding locals.
I would be more interested in how the system decides what is exported and produced, rather than in what is currently exported and produced
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 days ago
No, you have to expect your government to do that, which is why almost the entire world is not hyper capitalist choochoo trains