Introduction given in debate:
Governments all over the world try and set the minimum price at which cotton grown in their country can be sold. Both the United States and the European Union have policies which support their cotton producers by ensuring them a particular price at which their cotton will be bought as part of their subsidy programs. Developing countries like India, China, Mali and Burkina Faso have passed legislation that attempts to do the same thing in their own countries. In developed nations, this drive to ensure prices stems from the need to incentivize farming. In developing nations, these policies are enacted in order to stop farmers from being exploited. However, minimum price guarantees are not without risk and when enacted they often cause more harm than good, both domestically and abroad. Thus we are advocating that any government intervention that establishes a minimum price at which cotton can be bought be outlawed, both in developing and developed nations.
http://debatewise.org/debates/3511-minimum-price-guarantees-to-cotton-farmers-should-be-outlawed
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Governments all over the world try and set the minimum price at which cotton grown in their country can be sold. Both the United States and the European Union have policies which support their cotton producers by ensuring them a particular price at which their cotton will be bought as part of their subsidy programs. Developing countries like India, China, Mali and Burkina Faso have passed legislation that attempts to do the same thing in their own countries. In developed nations, this drive to ensure prices stems from the need to incentivize farming. In developing nations, these policies are enacted in order to stop farmers from being exploited. However, minimum price guarantees are not without risk and when enacted they often cause more harm than good, both domestically and abroad. Thus we are advocating that any government intervention that establishes a minimum price at which cotton can be bought be outlawed, both in developing and developed nations.
http://debatewise.org/debates/3511-minimum-price-guarantees-to-cotton-farmers-should-be-outlawed
Debate going on right now.
