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Since the 1960s, German agricultural policy has not been made in Germany but in the EC. All agricultural laws and regulations are written in Brussels, often after difficult negotiations between food-producing and food-consuming member states. The main objective of those negotiations is to obtain high incomes for the farmers while keeping market ...
This article lists federal ministers of food, agriculture and consumer protection of Germany and the equivalents of this office which preceded it. German Reich (1919–1945) [ edit ]
The Union of Agricultural, Forest and Vineyard Workers of Germany was founded in 1909, under the leadership of Georg Schmidt, who had previously been the leader of the small Union of Gardeners and Nursery Workers. [2] It became the "German Agricultural Workers' Union" in 1912. By 1928, the union had 151,273 members.
The German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft), commonly known as DLG, is an international non-profit organisation serving the agricultural industry in Germany. DLG was founded in 1885 by Max Eyth , has over 23,000 members as of 2011 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main . [ 1 ]
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The BMEL headquarters in Bonn, Germany BMEL offices on Wilhelmstraße, Berlin. The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (German: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ɛɐ̯ˈnɛːʁʊŋ ʊnt ˈlantvɪʁtʃaft] ⓘ), abbreviated BMEL, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Moreover, German agriculture was backward with too many small or inefficient farms and agricultural workers. Farmers and agricultural workers made up 26 percent of Germany's labor force in 1939. [12] (compared to about 17 percent of the U.S. labor force in the same year which produced a large surplus of food.) [13]
In 1985, East German agriculture employed 10.8 percent of the labor force, received 7.4 percent of gross capital investments, and contributed 8.1 percent to the country's net product. [2] Farms were usually organized either in state-owned farms (" Volkseigenes Gut ") or collective farms (" Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaften ").