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It is pointed out in the passage that it would be to the advantage of the farmer and the rural economy at large if ____ .
If a greater proportion of the food people eat were to be
locally produced, this would be of great benefit to the
farmer. A mix of local, regional, national, and international
production would still be available; indeed, the goal would
not be to put an end to the international trade in food, but
to avoid transporting food thousands of miles when it
could instead be produced next door. Such a shift would
help revitalise rural economies ruined by the global
economy. Less money would go into the hands of
corporate middlemen, and far more would remain in the
hands of farmers, This would especially be the case with
the direct marketing of food via farmers' markets and farm
stands and other forms of community supported
agriculture. If farmers were not impelled to specialise their
production in a few global commodities, the trend towards
ever larger and more highly mechanised farms would slow
down. Moreover, since small farms use a proportionally
higher amount of human labour than mechanised inputs,
a return to smaller farms would help bring back some of
the 700.000 farm jobs the UK has lost during the last halfcentury
of agricultural progress.