Your Answer ▼ It is a common belief that purchasing agricultural products from different countries has more benefits to people us. However, there is a more persuasive argument that it would be better to society provided that buyers purchase and consume domestic goods thing, which would protect the livelihoods of local farmers by not letting prices drop too low.
One the one hand, purchasing food items brought in from abroad allows people to consume a greater variety of agricultural products. Importing products that con can not be grown domestically gives much lots of choices to local buyers in the market. For instance, kiwifruit are very difficult to grow in Korea, so few farmers are willing to plant them. This results in a very limited supply of domestically grown kiwifruit. Luckily, importing fruits such as these is very common nowadays, and they are available in most markets. These such things make people to enjoy more the foreign forgine fruits.
Nevertheless, it is more important to protect domestic agriculture, which is in decline because many of the goods that are imported are cheap. This has negative consequences for the local farming industry, which is not always able to compete. For one, imported products which are from growing well places are usually cheaper. When these low-priced products hit the market, they drive prices down to a level that can not be matched by local farmers. This leads to consumers preferring to purchase less expensive imported products instead of local ones. A good example of this occurred in France, where the country's high labor and equipment costs make domestically produced farm products rather expensive. When cheaper meat and dairy imports from Spain were introduced, the local farmers simply could not deliver products to market at prices that were competitive with the imports. This led to farmers going out of business.
To sum up, while it is apparent that buying products from other country increases consumer choices, it is undeniable that buying domestic farm products should be our top priority. (여기도 이전 두 글과 마찬가지입니다.) |