1.   Even farmer groups admit the policy is simply the result of the drive for higher productivity and lower costs.

2.   Farmers groups originally protested the imports as an indirect import of rice, which they had long opposed.

3.   Kimball, who often speaks to farmer groups, contends that the old barns have more than just aesthetic and symbolic importance.

4.   Perhaps the biggest surprise was the success of Self-Defense, a militant farmers group that has opposed Polish efforts to join the European Union.

5.   A farmers group opposes Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in Bangalore, saying they can cause ill-health and obesity.

6.   A leader of a farmers group from the northeast recently threatened to bring thousands of members to Bangkok to confront anti-Chavalit demonstrators.

7.   A second farmers group, the Office of the National Center of Young Farmers, also strongly protested the ruling.

8.   Both are flashpoints for environmental and farmers rights groups who will be holding a parallel food summit on the outskirts of Rome.

9.   Farmers groups have criticized the government for a lack of transparency in negotiating the loan agreement and are unhappy with some of the terms that have been revealed.

10.   Farmers groups said they would not change their scheduled Saturday mass rally in front of the National Assembly to protest the accord.