A financial contribution made by the state or a public body to help agricultural industries keep the price of certain foods low.
his support collapsed after he cut food subsidies
Example sentencesExamples
- He opposed the incoming government's introduction of food subsidies to curb inflation.
- The hidden agenda of the committee is to reduce this food subsidy to 0.2 per cent.
- Many food subsidies there, in particular for animal fats, were abolished.
- The allocation for the food subsidy shows hardly any increase.
- Friday's announcements attempt to minimize the food subsidy burden on the budget.
- A total of 78 per cent of respondents were in favour of state-backed food subsidies to reduce the cost of basic food items.
- The country's food subsidy of 1 per cent of GDP is not high by international standards.
- To ensure low food prices in urban areas, developing country governments have been obliged to spend beyond their means on direct consumer food subsidies.
- Even more wealthy Brazilians supported a campaign to end hunger by providing a basic food subsidy to all poor people.
- Only in Germany were respondents against food subsidies, albeit by a slim majority.