French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll has unveiled new proposals for area-based support payments that would favour small farmers.
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll has unveiled new proposals for area-based support payments that would favour small farmers.
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ROG WOOD
Under his proposed system, all farmers would receive a basic area payment – but he wants to be able to double the size of the payment for the first fifty hectares.
He also proposes that the payment system would apply right across the country, with no differentiation between regions. The French move is prompted by a desire to secure the future of their beef cow producers, and funding for the extra payment on the first fifty hectares would come from top-slicing all farmers' payments.
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