ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the post-1945 conditions for the Danish agrarian sector, and the recurrent theme is that restrictions on international trade in agricultural products often made it difficult to sell the substantial surplus production abroad, and that the limited domestic market was never in a situation to consume all that was produced. When analysing the Danish post-war agrarian policy it is important to take into account the export-oriented nature of the agrarian sector. The predominant role of the agrarian sector as earner of foreign currencies meant that a reduction of agrarian exports would have serious repercussions for the entire economy, as lack of foreign currencies would have severe consequences for the ability to import such as raw materials and energy, which could not be produced domestically. The continuous intervention in producer and consumer prices was made on an ad hoc basis, where interventions in one subsector were likely to produce consequences in other subsectors.
