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Questionable Payments and Loan Defaults in Sugar Programs

CED-79-24 Published: Mar 16, 1979. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 1979.
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Highlights

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has two programs intended to help sugar producers with price-support payments and price-support loans. The sugar price-support program on 1977 crop year sugar has resulted in questionable payments of millions of dollars. The plan program for 1977 crop year sugar is beset with problems of storage, underpayments to growers, and failure to vertify or enforce minimum wage requirements.

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Agriculture and Food
Agricultural programsFarm produceFarm subsidiesLoan defaultsPrice supportsQuestionable paymentsSugarMinimum wageAgricultural workersUnderpayments