COST-BENEFIT-ANALYSIS OF THE EC-MARKET POLICY FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES – CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS

The EC-market policy for fruit and vegetables is subject to growing criticism.
The main complaints are

• increasing protectionism

• increasing state expenditure and

• destruction of fruit and vegetables

on one hand and on the other hand

• low grower incomes

• large instability of the markets and

• inefficient production and market structures.

These problems, which will probably aggravate with the enlargement of the EC, call for a thorough analysis of costs and benefits of the EC-market policy.
In this paper some concepts and partial results of cost-benefit studies are discussed.
They are based on different studies, which have been conducted in the course of the last two years in the Institute for Horticultural Economics in Hannover.

VI Symposium on Horticultural Economics

R.v. Alvensleben

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1979.97.28