2024-01-10
From the Ministerial Foreword by the Rt Hon Steve Barclay:
"I have learnt that farming is fundamental to the UK’s rural economy, the environment and of course our food security"
" ... I am setting out the biggest upgrade to farming schemes since the UK has had the freedom to design our own schemes"
We voted "Leave" in 2016.
The original Agricultural Transition Plan was published in 2020.
By comparison, Covid struck in January-ish 2020, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (348 pages) had received the Royal Assent by July 2020.
" ... we need to see universal adoption of farming regulatory standards and at least 70% of farmers and land managers undertaking environmental land management actions alongside food production"
"Continuing to make schemes more flexible so all types, sizes and locations of farmers can make them work in their businesses. This will allow us to achieve universal compliance with regulations and large-scale uptake of environmental schemes to achieve our outcomes"
"We will add approximately 50 new actions to our schemes for farmers and land managers. This will enable them to access a range of actions that cover everything we want them to do to achieve our targets"
"We will provide better advice so farmers can make the most of our schemes ... This includes ... providing access to tools like carbon audits so farmers are more confident undertaking more tailored changes to their business"
"We set out our target outcomes for the environment and climate in the Environmental Improvement Plan and Net Zero Growth Plan ... Some of our target outcomes require large-scale uptake of actions ... that we know can be made to work in every setting"
