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Agricultural Crops Counter Cyclical Payments

The counter-cyclical payment program is one part of the Government's "safety net" for farmers. It provides income support while minimally distorting trade and production. The program protects farmers from low program commodity prices, and helps ensure farmers' cash flow needs are met.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • There are no systematic external reviews conducted of the program, though it has been reviewed by a WTO panel and numerous academic economists.
  • The agency does not collect data to monitor program performance. However, it does conduct internal audits and reviews of compliance, which should improve program efficiency, and minimize fraud, waste and abuse.
  • Though the program has developed performance measures, it has not demonstrated adequate progress in achieving its long-term performance goals. For example, the program has not minimized the variability of producers' returns.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing an independent evaluation process to be conducted once every three years.
  • Collecting data to monitor program performance.

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