Sentence examples for farming nations from inspiring English sources

France and Poland, two of Europe's largest farming nations, supported it.

Agricultural handouts were cut, but France and other major farming nations thwarted attempts to shift a greater slice of E.U. spending toward steps to increase investment and competitiveness.

France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands – all major farming nations – all back the Commission's proposed suspension of neonicotinoids on flowering crops like oil seed rape.

The French trade minister, Michel Noir, demanded far-reaching agricultural concessions today from the United States, Canada and other big farming nations.

MADRID — On Sunday, members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will elect a new director general amid pressure on the agency to improve its own administrative efficiency, as well as that of the world's poorest farming nations.

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Britain has never again regarded itself as a great farming nation.

Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to cap farm payments and Bhutan wants to be the only 100 percent organic farming nation (we'll see which happens first).

One Brazilian businessman told me that turning Angola into a farming nation and lowering its dependence on oil revenues should not be that difficult.

"It hits right at the Australian identity of Australia as a farming nation, an agricultural power harking back to its wool and beef trade," Ms. Oliver said.

France, the biggest farming nation in Europe, objects to calls for countries that breach the deficit rules to lose access to E.U. agricultural subsidies.