Written by Tom Allen-Stevens
Defra Secretary of State Theresa Villiers has told farmers the election had given the government the majority it needed to drive forward changes it would be introducing through The Agriculture Bill. Tom Allen-Stevens reports. Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference on 8 January, she said she shared the determination of farmers to show UK leadership in the task of “feeding a rapidly growing global population at the same time as addressing the massively important challenges both of climate change and reversing the deeply worrying decline of nature biodiversity and habitats.” The Environmental Land Management (ELM) contracts would be the most important reforms in this area for over 40 years, she noted. “Our aim is a managed and fair transition to a system tailored to our needs in the UK, based on a principle of public money for public goods.” Theresa Villiers aims for a managed and fair transition to a system based on public money for public goods. Up for support will be clean air and water, measures to protect wildlife and mitigate the impact of flooding. This will also be underlined in the Environment Bill, she added. Defra received over 300 proposals to design this new system, with 38…
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