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RCED-85-107 1 (1985-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabfga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Federal Price Support For Honey Should Be Phased Out The mandatory honey price-support program, which is currently set at the lowest support level allowable by law, has become costly to the government--about $164 million for the 1980-83 period. Only 1 percent of the nation's beekeepers participate in the program. Since 1980 the government has acquired increasing quantities of honey as forfeiture of loan collateral because the support price has been greater than the world market price, and cheaper imported honey has been replacing domestic honey in the market. The program, which was originally justified on the need to ensure an adequate supply of honeybees for crop pollination purposes, is actually unnecessary to ensure pollination. Producers of seed or fruit crops to which bee pollination is essential pay for or supply their own honeybees for this purpose. In addition, program management is not adequate to prevent fraud or abuse, and improvements would be costly and may not be completely effective. GAO recommends that the Congress eliminate the mandatory aspects of the honey price-support program and consider directing the Secre- tary of Agriculture to continue, under existing discretionary authority, financial support to the beekeeping industry, but phase out the program by reducing the price-support level over time to minimize the impact on the industry. I!IL/I//1! I//ll ll ll/ II//1 I - -,1 2 7 7 4 5 Z GAO/RCED-85-107 O AUGUST 19.1985 0cou T4-0 O$X95c0//A 77YL5

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