Great Britain’s authorities will early send senior farmers to retire and pay them compensation. So the British plan to attract young people in agriculture, which is easily adjusted to the “green” programs for the sake of escorting nature, writes BBC.
This initiative is part of large-scale changes in the allocation policy of agricultural subsidies that encourage farmers to protect the environment. In the UK, the agricultural sector accounts for about nine percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The government believes that young farmers will be more open to new environmental ideas and start making money on business diversification towards ecotourism. Now the average age of farmers is 59 years old, four of the ten farming workers – more than 65 years.
At the moment, the farmer in the UK annually receives about 21 thousand pounds of sterling (29.7 thousand dollars) in the form of various grants. With early retirement, the elderly landworker will be able to get an average of 50 thousand pounds of sterling from the government (70.8 thousand dollars). The amount of compensation will be determined depending on the size of the land. The maximum payment will be 100 thousand pounds of sterling (141.6 thousand dollars).
It is expected that farmers in England and Wales will be able to take advantage of the new financial support plan. Other programs are preparing other programs in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Association of Tenant Farmers’ Association (TFA)) requested opinions on this initiative in 360 farmers. Three quarters of them are interested in the “pension scheme”.
“For the owners of large possessions, this scheme will not be very attractive, but many farmers will go to her,” said the representative of TFA.
At the same time, the association insists that the procedure for obtaining payments for the refusal of farming should be simple, as people need to be addressed to the sale of livestock.
The representative of the National Farmers Union (National Farmers Union (NFU)) added that farmers need to provide time to leaving the industry, as this is an important solution for them.
“farmers who want to leave agriculture, it is difficult to find money for this. One-time payment will help to cover the cost of moving to a new place or to a new case,” the representative of the UK Ministry of Agriculture added.
Reforming agriculture in order to reduce the harm of ecology and are carried out in other countries of the world. US residents have become massively abandoning beef for reasons that cows allocate a huge amount of greenhouse gas due to the characteristics of the digestive system. The transition of Americans to vegetable food or alternative meat beats financially by producers and catering.