Essay

  CAP stands for Common Agricultural Policy, this was set up in 1962 in Europe. When it started , some of the objectives were: to create a single market in which agricultural products could move freely, to give financial support to farmers. To increase the average of field size, farm size and farmers income. In this Essay we are going to talk about the advantages and disadvantajes of the CAP.
  The advantajes are the following: many people canhave a job, so, more money enters, p´rices of things are not high, and therefore everyone can buy things. Farmers, instead of having a life, a hardworking life, they have a "normal" life, and they have more free-time.
  The disadvantages of the Common Agricultural Policy(CAP) are the following ones: there was an increase in food prices, peripheral farm units were still small and often uneconomic, high costs of subsidies, farmers spent insufficient time woking in farms and the destruction of hedges to create larger fields destroyed wildlife and increased the risk of soil erosion. The ones that weren´t involves in the CAP didn´t suffered all this.
  As we can see the Common Agricultural Policy(CAP) brought advantages and disadvantages for the market.