Clearly, without donor assistance, the government cannot afford to compensate families and farmers fairly.

Government subsidies don't fully compensate farmers for the lost production and income opportunities.

But there was enough money to compensate farmers, and claims were being worked on as fast as possible.

In order to control outbreaks, governments must create funds to compensate farmers for their destroyed chickens, he said.

The Thai government has also pledged to compensate individual farmers, but there have been complaints that the amounts offered were too small.

This tax was to compensate farmers who had diseased cattle killed for health reasons.

The first is that of justice, taking responsibility for compensating innocent farmers.

Moreover, it is not good enough merely to alter agricultural policy in order to compensate farmers who are affected.

However, I have to repeat very strongly that it is not possible, via rural development policy, to compensate farmers for lost income.

In addition the Commission has produced a new programme to compensate farmers for some of their losses.