"There are very few young people that go into farming and we have an aging farming population, " he said.

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Mr. COOK: Most of them are family farms, And the lion's share of the payments go to very large family farming operations.

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Mr Jones also criticised cuts in the common agricultural policy budget - although at Westminster, Labour leader Ed Miliband said the cuts in spending on farming didn't go far enough.

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The EU's main audit body says agricultural subsidies - the biggest item in the EU budget - often go to people who do little or no farming.

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Profitable farming, women's income and child nutrition should therefore go together.

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Authorities say the land in question is owned by the government, but activists argue villagers have been farming the land for many years and have nowhere else to go if it is developed by a private company.

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