Abstract
The aims of the Finnish agricultural policy are to safeguard agricultural self-sufficiency and the evolution of farmers' income, to develop the structure of agriculture and to try to maintain the rural population. Price and income policy, production policy, structural policy and regional policy are applied to reach these objectives. The application is hampered partly by their contradictory effects. The most important instrument in Finnish agricultural policy has been the price policy. It has been based on price Acts, which have given general guidelines on the price level. In recent years, however, measures restricting production have become dominant in agricultural policy.
Highlights
Finnish agricultural policy was very strongly affected by World War II and subsequent experiences
It is not easy to name the range of individual instruments in accordance with the various goals, so the following classes of agricultural policy are dealt with in the following pages (IHAMUOTILA 1979, ANON. 1979 and 1980a): price and income policy production policy structural policy regional policy It should be stated briefly that various instruments have several influences
There are no official, binding decisions covering the whole of Finnish agricultural policy
Summary
Finnish agricultural policy was very strongly affected by World War II and subsequent experiences. Hoping to achieve a higher standard of living a substantial part of the farm population, above all their children, have moved to centres of population or have left he country This development cannot be regarded as sound. Maataloustieteellinen aikakauskirja 5 countryside decreases and gets older, the ability of the countryside to function grows weaker, which for its part makes it hard for those who have remained in the country to carry on farming In this situation different goals come into conflict because of agricultural surpluses. The state budget, sets its own limits on export premiums, which, again, creates pressure to curtail production This stands in contradiction with the attempts to maintain the quantity of the agricultural population, and to raise productivity and the level of income
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