31.   The Europeans seemed to seek an organization that gave greater attention to protecting farmers and to individual national sensitivities.

32.   The guarantees violated rules that required farmers to operate independently in order to qualify for the subsidy program, which was established to protect small farmers from price fluctuations.

33.   The loan system would help to protect farmers from having to sell their crops the moment they harvest them.

34.   The marketing loan part of the program protects farmers if world prices fall drastically.

35.   The only answer, he said, is for Ghana to throw up its own trade restrictions to protect its farmers.

36.   The present world market price has been distorted downward because of the subsidies that virtually all sugar-producing countries use to protect their farmers, he explained.

37.   The program, called Crop Revenue Coverage, is an Agriculture Department-subsidized program that protects farmers against losses of a crop or against price drops.

38.   The right way to protect farmers is insurance, not subsidy.

39.   The program, called Crop Revenue Coverage, is an Agriculture Department-subsidized program that protects farmers against price drops or crop losses.

40.   The vice president said it had an inadequate safety net to protect farmers when prices slumped.