This note covers agricultural policy developments in Estonia since the Estonia Food and Agriculture Sector Review (report no. 13316), briefly assessing sector performance in 1995-96. The agricultural and forestry policy perspectives, and the sector in general, are analyzed in a broader rural development framework. It includes proposals for further action, such as: (1) maintaining an open market-oriented agriculture sector by continuing commitment to liberalized prices and markets, and becoming a trading center for the Baltic states; (2) accelerating land reform and coordinating activities like cadastre registration and restitution, introducing financial incentives, developing a framework for a functioning land market, disposing of state land, upgrading the farm drainage infrastructure, allowing for more foreign participation, and removing controls on land rents; (3) becoming internationally competitive in agroprocessing, and increasing efficiency in agricultural service delivery, removing preferences and opening up to foreign capital investments, establishing farmers' machine cooperatives, and upgrading agro-processing to European Union (EU) standards; (4) setting up sustainable rural financial services training financial services staff and farmers, supporting private banking, phasing out interest rate subsidies for rural lending, and developing a rural guarantee fund; and (5) establishing a strategic framework to assist the rural sector by accelerating private sector driven technological changes, setting up a research funding system and demand-driven agricultural education, focusing on rural poverty and regional development, improving and developing advisory services, and monitoring food quality to meet EU standards.
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Data do documento
1997/02/26
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No. do relatório
16713
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1
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1
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Data de divulgação
2021/09/19
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Disclosed
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Estonia agricultural and forestry policy update
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Agriculture;agricultural land;food and agricultural;early stage of development;farmer;free trade agreement;land reform;method of privatization;family farm;agriculture sector;food processing industry;acceleration of privatization;open trade regime;signs of recovery;
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