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How so? Supply goes down while demand is the same --> Price goes up --> Profit margin for the farmer increases --> Profits of mustard > profits of rapeseed -->
by SimplyUnknown 4y ago
How so? Supply goes down while demand is the same --> Price goes up --> Profit margin for the farmer increases --> Profits of mustard > profits of rapeseed --> Farmer produces mustard instead of rapeseed. This is exactly the consequence of supply and demand.
The only noteworthy fact is that we got in this situation because it was not a completely free market but a regulated market due to subsidies for rapeseed, artificially increasing their profit margin.
- bottled_poe 4y agoBecause demand isn’t the same. Changing the price affects the demand.