A minimum price guaranteed to a farmer for agricultural produce and maintained by subsidy or the buying in of surplus stock.
支持性价格，保障性价格（指通过补贴或购进过剩库存确保农民能获得的其农产品的最低价格）
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The principle on which it rests is that of encouraging production by providing support prices for agricultural production of various sorts.
The bill stressed supporting farm income with the cash payments unrelated to what farmers grew, rather than having government support prices by purchasing surplus crops.
The support price for nonfat dry milk remains the same at 60.6 cents.
For now, the support price program provides an effective floor of about $1.10 for cheddar blocks.
The accumulation of stocks results from the government's commitment to unrealistically high minimum support prices of food grains - of wheat and rice in particular.
Additionally, the reforms do not lower European support prices for grain, known under CAP as intervention prices.
In the countryside, the rural exodus gathered pace when reforms to the CAP in 1984 and 1992 cut support prices and closed down the least profitable and most indebted farms.
The entry prices also serve as support prices for the major crops.
It means that we do not have to increase product or support prices.
Indeed, for wheat the support price is now lower than the wholesale price; the support price thus acts as a floor.
Government's intervention is needed to save them by fixing a support price for vanilla as done in the case of coconut and rubber.
These support cuts amounted to a 7% reduction in butter support prices and a 5% reduction in the support price for skim milk powder.
The Union government has raised the minimum support price for the 1999-2000 wheat crop to Rs 580 per quintal from Rs 550 earlier, according to an agriculture ministry statement.
The administration has no plans to impose a milk tax or cut support prices in any year.
Tipton notes that some dairy groups and the federal government have advocated a very high support price for nonfat dry milk over the past couple of years, which has had a primary role in the growth of MPC imports.
Second, the state established institutions to set support prices.
The ASCUs are then reimbursed by the Treasury for any loss related to the difference between the support price and the sales price.
A rethink on minimum support prices was also on the cards.
It benefits directly from the exaggerated support prices the government shells out for this ‘health food.’
The government procures rice and wheat at minimum support prices, which are often higher than international prices.