Nature-based farming-subsidies scheme given green light
A post-Brexit green subsidy scheme is going ahead – but there is no clarity on what farmers will be paid. …
“A return to countryside stewardship, where farmers are paid to look after the environment as a supplement to their core business interests, with little tailoring to local needs, risks a clunky retrofitting of previous policies rather than securing the world-leading overhaul that farmers were promised,” he said.