Producing Is Not Enough, It Is Necessary to Guarantee Decent Income for the Countryside

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The question is simple, but decisive: does agricultural policy allow the producer to recover its costs, obtain sufficient profit, sustain his family, pay his obligations, reinvest and remain in the activity? Production, productivity and profitability are not the same. Production is the total amount obtained; productivity, what is produced per hectare, worker or unit of capital; gross income, the value received from the sale and the net income or…