Title: Market-Based Regulation of Milk Quota Transfer in Québec
Abstract: The dairy industry in Canada and Quebec is one of the best organized agricultural sectors under statutory provisions and the farmers' union administers a joint scheme conferring on it extensive powers over the marketing of the product and the regulation of quota transfer between producers. Under statutory provisions, the marketing of agricultural produce, the farmers' union can exercise administrative control over the production sector through a "joint scheme" under supervision of a government agency. Ever since the introduction of dairy quotas, responsibility for managing and distributing individual quotas between dairy producers has been exclusively in the hands of the farming unions. The farmers in are in direct competition with each other to obtain the right to expand, and it is primarily the rationale of a market of perfect competition, that of quotas and not of the product, that determines the pace of structural change in the productive sector.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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