Government policies over 20 years have hit the rural sector hard.Farmers are now nakedly exposed to:larger, fewer and more powerful corporate processors; two supermarkets who have about 76% of the packaged and fresh food market; corrupt international markets where the subsidised, dumped excesses of the EU and US are sold at very low prices; farm input corporations, who sell fertilizers, chemicals and seeds that farmers need for high productivity, but which farmers buy at enormous cost;rising deb…
