· the funds could be used for investment in public goods or infrastructure, stimulating
long-term development of the agricultural sector;
· the study of agricultural policies shows that short term crisis interventions and
"temporary" programs have the tendency to become permanent programs. This is
because (a) they create expectations on the part of the producers (and possibly also
other groups) that they will be continued or repeated under certain circumstances
and (b) they tend to create their own constituency and for political-economic
reasons it is difficult to remove them afterwards (c) they get incorporated in prices