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View Scotland holistically, says farmers' group

THE Scottish Tenant Farmers Association (STFA) has told the Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) that it disagrees with the "silo mentality", which seeks to restrict debate on the tenanted sector to bodies such as the Tenant Farming Forum (TFF) instead of seeking a more holistic overview of the future of Scotland's countryside.

The STFA response to the LRRG's call for evidence is based on a survey of members' views and can be summarised as:

l Land tenure and tenancy reform must be considered in the wider context of land reform, taking account of the contribution that the tenanted sector can make to food production, the environment and the economic and social prosperity of local communities;

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