In the U.S., a dozen or so shellers act as middlemen between farmers and end users like peanut-butter and candy makers including J.
In the worst case scenario, poor farmers could even end up being obliged to pay royalties to the patent holder on a product their forebears had grown for generations.
The epidemic devastated the region economically, although in the end few farmers went bankrupt.
The new laws - which were formally approved by 574 votes to 97 at the daily voting session on 15 February 2012 - are thus designed to help dairy farmers prepare for the end of quotas.
That means the full seed comes out the other end, where farmers collect the remains, wash away excess debris and lightly roast the resulting beans.
Bankrupt state-run electricity boards, an acute shortage of coal, skewed subsidises which end up benefiting rich farmers, power theft, and under-performing private distribution agencies are to blame, say experts.
Towards the end of last year, the farmers received the first instalment of the money they were owed.
The farmers can also sell the ducks at the end of the season.
The spokesman said the period of low supply of milk was expected to end this autumn with a number of farmers reporting cows due to calve.
In fact, El Bulli's end seems to have opened up space for other farmers, food producers and chefs to step out of Adria's shadow and show off their culinary diversity.
The farmers need potash too and deals with India are expected before year end.
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And some would say that in the end, it all evens out, and that the farmers do need the subsidies to keep their heads above the water.
He hopes farmers will voluntarily rip up a further 5, 000 hectares by the end of the year.
And often, for Texas cotton farmers, the garbage is the difference between red and black at the end of the year.
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