Restricting Intensive Livestock Production: Economic Effects of Mineral Policy in the Netherlands

M H C Komen and J H M Peerlings

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1998, vol. 25, issue 1, 110-28

Abstract: This paper examines the effects for the Dutch economy of a reduction in livestock production using an applied general equilibrium model. A reduction is seen as a possible solution to the environmental problems linked with the excess supply of minerals to the environment. Results show that a decrease in pig and poultry production to achieve a maximum permitted phosphate loss of 30 kg/ha will decrease income of pig and poultry farming by 2.6 and 1.0 per cent, respectively. The compound feed, pig meat and poultry meat industry are seriously affected. Trade shows a reduction in net exports of livestock and meat and net imports of feed stuffs. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1998
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