. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. VEST GERMANY IS JTRONG PORT FOR FARM GOODS By RICHARD L. BARNES 'egt Germany is the world's largest iporter of agricultural products. In W4, agricultural imports from all urces totaled $ billion. In local irrency, 1984 imports were 9 percent (ove 1983 levels. West Germems rank among the salthiest consumers in the world, at lOut $10,000 per capita. Shoppers are epared to spend more money for food- id not just for essentials. There is a owing taste for delicatessen items and w-to-market foods, many coming from reign cctmtrie
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. VEST GERMANY IS JTRONG PORT FOR FARM GOODS By RICHARD L. BARNES 'egt Germany is the world's largest iporter of agricultural products. In W4, agricultural imports from all urces totaled $ billion. In local irrency, 1984 imports were 9 percent (ove 1983 levels. West Germems rank among the salthiest consumers in the world, at lOut $10,000 per capita. Shoppers are epared to spend more money for food- id not just for essentials. There is a owing taste for delicatessen items and w-to-market foods, many coming from reign cctmtries. Apart from a high rate of employment in West Germany, onomic prospects are bright, iications are for an increasing mber of jobs and rising disposable »mes. *est Germany's small arable land â¢face has its southernmost border on ighly the same latitude as Duluth, on. Despite ito northerly position, the mtry has made impressive advances ts own food production during the last eral years. Farmers and poUcy- kers alike are beginning to worry re about how to dispose of surplus duction in future years than about fking self-sufficiencyâa pre- upation of the post World War II TS. /est Germany already produces more ry products, beef and sugar than it consume domestically; and it ders on self-sufficiency in most food feed grains. ver-increasing production has been lulated in part by the European amunity's (EC) Common Agricul- J Policy. Even in the face of rising JUt, farmers have responded to ler support prices by producing 8 production in Germany and in T EC countries rose, the EC onded by rigorously enforcing cies designed to increasingly restrict 1 country imports, le , which has played a icularly important role in supplying «t Germany's huge import irements, has felt the brunt of these aes and other influences that have the market. Increased import notions, combined with other )rs, forced a decline in German trts of agricultural producto their peak of $Z9 bill
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