for Food Security in Africa: Present Knowledge and Future Expectations" in Food Security, Ed. Jones & Hernandez, 2012 [PDI] Most Asian countries for example Pakistan are a major rice exporter. This success can be attributed to government subsidy and domestic support in the form of financing agricultural projects at favourable financing terms. This in turn has given the government revenue for foreign trade, the citizens have more food security and income is enhanced (Chu and Lee, 2000). Farmers have achieved economic empowerment from foreign trade of their produce. There has also being new technology being embraced by the farmers to improve on their agricultural skills and production Most Asian countries are contemplating their subsidy efficiency (Buah et al, 2011). however reviewing policies on due to some ineffectiveness in line with the major objectives of these policies. These objective included increased in grains Since the production and food production and hence food security, eradication of poverty, increasing the income of small holder farmers etc. implementation of this policy, there has been a declining trend in grain production save for the first few years The small holder farmers who were to benefit from of implementation of this policy. the policy on subsidy so that they could improve their income are not the major beneficiaries. The large commercial farmers took up this opportunity; the policy indicated that subsidy was to be given based on the area of cultivation. Most of these small holder farmers operate in small pieces of land and hence the amount given was also relatively low. These small holder farmers could not compete with the large agribusiness firms at the same level hence there was very slight progress. They could not do farming large scale as they could not afford to buy land (Mbote et al, 2008)
for Food Security in Africa: Present Knowledge and Future Expectations" in Food Security, Ed. Jones & Hernandez, 2012 [PDI] Most Asian countries for example Pakistan are a major rice exporter. This success can be attributed to government subsidy and domestic support in the form of financing agricultural projects at favourable financing terms. This in turn has given the government revenue for foreign trade, the citizens have more food security and income is enhanced (Chu and Lee, 2000). Farmers have achieved economic empowerment from foreign trade of their produce. There has also being new technology being embraced by the farmers to improve on their agricultural skills and production efficiency (Buah et al, 2011). Most Asian countries are however contemplating reviewing their policies on subsidy due to some ineffectiveness in line with the major objectives of these policies. These objective included increased in grains production and food production and hence food security, eradication of poverty, increasing the income of small holder farmers etc. Since the implementation of this policy, there has been a declining trend in grain production save for the first few years of implementation of this policy. The small holder farmers who were to benefit from the policy on subsidy so that they could improve their income are not the major beneficiaries. The large commercial farmers took up this opportunity; the policy indicated that subsidy was to be given based on the area of cultivation. Most of these small holder farmers operate in small pieces of land and hence the amount given was also relatively low. These small holder farmers could not compete with the large agribusiness firms at the same level hence there was very slight progress. They could not do farming large scale as they could not afford to buy land (Mbote et al, 2008)
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