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Future farmers frozen out, warns CLA "If there's to be a future for farming, the Single Farm Payment (SFP) should not make life more difficult for new blood coming into the industry," says Mark Hudson, President of CLA, as the Country Land & Business Association sends its response to the consultation by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on the new rules for the National Reserve.
"New farmers don't need the additional cost of buying entitlements, so when DEFRA asked us whether, after 2005, new entrants to farming should be required to purchase the right to public support, we said, 'No!'" He adds, "There needs to be provision for continuing access to the National Reserve to ensure that new farmers compete on a level playing field with those who have the advantage of taking over family farms with SFP entitlement.' Since SFP entitlements can be traded separately from land there is great uncertainty about which farms in future will have entitlements available for new entrants and which will not. Entitlements under the SFP are not yet tradable but will be from the end of 2005. New entrants will face added difficulties in raising capital for farming if they have to buy entitlements to compete. Very few farms are likely to be let with SFP entitlement in the early stages of CAP reform, and so existing farmers will therefore be at a competitive advantage for new tenancies over new entrants. "That's why the National Reserve must be open to all who qualify as new entrants in 2005 -and beyond", concludes Mark Hudson. 18 May 2004 -Ends- Notes: A full copy of CLA's response will be available on our website www.cla.org.uk DEFRA's consultation on the rules for the National Reserve asks at Question NR2: Are there likely to be more reasons why new entrants will not be able to purchase or lease entitlements from 2006 onwards? The CLA's response is a resounding 'Yes'. The consultation on options under the SFP Scheme in England in regard to operating a National Reserve Entitlement Trading and the initial allocation is the fifth public consultation to be held in connection with CAP reform. The closing date for responses is 25 June 2004. http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/capnational-reserve/index.htm The National Reserve will provide an additional means of obtaining an historical element to the entitlements a farmer is allocated in 2005 or entitlements in subsequent years. Those eligible to apply will be defined after the current consultation has been completed. Further information is available elsewhere on the DEFRA web site, see http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/capreform/index.htm The CLA aims to be the premier organisation dedicated to safeguarding the interests of those responsible for land, property and business throughout rural England and Wales. |
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