Sentence examples for maintain farming from inspiring English sources
"We are worried that it may set a precedent or that it is a trend but we would like to maintain farming in the area as it is the crown of the Cumbrian uplands".
Since coming into operation, the overall aim of the CAP is to provide European farmers with a reasonable standard of living, consumers with quality food at fair prices and to maintain farming in all regions of the EU.
These mechanisms are intended to provide a basic level of support to maintain farming activity across the EU, to ensure a minimum level of maintenance to lands receiving payments, and to monitor and prevent significant declines in permanent pastures.
Recent renewed drives to maintain farming activities on extensive areas have been encouraged at the EU level, which previously had witnessed a phenomenon of partial abandonment and reduction in flock sizes.
Specific support for "less favoured areas" has maintained farming in regions, such as the Scottish Highlands or the poorest areas of southern Italy and the Greek islands, where agriculture might otherwise have foundered altogether.
Those closed markets maintain farm incomes but also elevate prices for Canadian shoppers.
Governments have employed various measures to maintain farm prices and incomes above what the market would otherwise have yielded.
The Africans generally farm, though certain groups, like the Zaghawa, sometimes maintain farms while also sweeping south with their herds during the harvest season.
Most farmers on the island supplement their earnings with government subsidies, paid to follow various environmental strictures or merely to maintain farms in such an inaccessible place.
So House Republicans voted to maintain farm subsidies — at a higher level than either the Senate or the White House proposed — while completely eliminating food stamps from the bill.
With these techniques the EEC has been able to maintain farm prices at levels substantially higher than those prevailing in the United States and Canada.
