The First Minister has "lost the trust of rural Scotland" over delays to European Union (EU) funding payments to farmers, Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has said.
Only a third of farmers have received their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) claims, she told Holyrood's chamber at First Minister's Questions.
The payments have been affected by major issues with the IT system used to administer them while the Scottish Government said the complexities of the new CAP system had hindered the process.
Ms Davidson said: "We have a botched IT system costing nearly half as much as this Parliament building, which still doesn't work, we have farmers fobbed off with promises that they would receive their payments by the end of January, and only a third of them have.
"We now find that ministers were told of problems in 2014, but of course back then they were all still too busy campaigning for independence.
"We know what their response has been - it came in five pages of excuses and lines to deploy which was emailed by mistake to the everybody in Parliament.
"So, I ask the First Minister should her team, instead of getting their excuses in, be spending more time fixing the problem?"
The Tory leader said NFU Scotland president Allan Bowie claimed members "have lost trust in the system".
She added: "The First Minister has lost the trust of rural Scotland, she has overseen another government IT fiasco and farmers no longer have confidence in her rural affairs minister."
Nicola Sturgeon said: "My team both in government and the civil service are working to make sure that we get payments to farmers as quickly as possible.
"The Cabinet Secretary is discussing this issue on a weekly basis, we are fully behind the farming community and we are doing everything possible to get payments to them as quickly as possible.
"It is true that processing payments has taken longer than we intended due to the complexities of the new CAP system and we have been open with farmers and with industry about these complexities and what we are doing to address them."
Ms Sturgeon said the payments began at the end of December and as of last week 35% had been made.
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