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No curry - no countryside In a letter to MP's from across all parties, the Country Land and Business Association is looking for help to persuade the Government that the report earlier this year by Sir Don Curry, Chairman of the Policy Commission for the Future of Food and Farming
It is now widely acknowledged that a healthy agricultural industry is essential to a healthy rural economy and without it landscape suffers, enterprise and investment decline and rural tourism wanes. The CLA is urging the Government to accept the case for funding the Curry report during the term of the current Comprehensive Spending Review and commit to it now.Sir Edward Greenwell, President of the Country Land and Business Association, said: "The countryside, the rural economy and agriculture will all suffer if funding is not found in the imminent Comprehensive Spending Review and an opportunity to deliver the environmental benefits that the public so desire will have been lost. "As the decision on Government spending approaches it is a choice between breathing new life into the countryside and irrevocable decline. "The rural economy is underpinned by the farming industry which is crucial not only because it supplies food but also because it generates jobs and incomes in the countryside, and attracts business and tourism through its stewardship of the landscape. "Farming must be profitable to survive. Jobs, business, investment, services and tourism all follow from profitable farming. If it needs a new direction to achieve that, so be it but the Government must play its part. "The public wants what farming has to offer, including landscape, habitat and resource protection but has no way to pay for it. Fully funded implementation of the Curry report is the golden opportunity to enable the public to do just that. "By putting a fully funded, broad environmental stewardship scheme - fully funded and available to all farmers across the country - at the centre of future rural policy, the Government will be securing the foundations for the wider rural economy. |
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