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In addition to the six environmental goals set out in the 25-Year Environment Plan, the...

Recommendation
In addition to the six environmental goals set out in the 25-Year Environment Plan, the Department expects the Future Farming and Countryside Programme to help improve farm productivity. It explained that its work to improve productivity would focus on the resilience of the sector and enabling “the least productive farmers to prosper”.77 However the RSPB told us that the detail presented by the Department so far only related to SFI, which was only one of three components of the planned scheme, and that it lacked information on the rest of the scheme or the expected wider impact on farming in the UK. It explained that other factors were also fundamentally important to the viability of farming including market supply chains, equity, fairness, advice and trade agreements.78
Government Response

A response document is linked to this report, dated 1 March 2022. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document.

Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 4.7 yrs
Report published 09 Jan 2022