Extra subsidies encourage organic farming
Extra subsidies encourage organic farming
- 1999
- Daily Telegraph 11 March 1999, 18(1) .
The increase in organic conversion payments for arable land from £100 to £180 per acre in April 1999 has encouraged an extra 280 farmers to 'go organic'. The scheme had previously only attracted 400 farmers since it started in 1993.
PROPERTY-RURAL AND NATURAL ASSETS-AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY-AGRICULTURAL LAND-ARABLE LAND
ORGANIC CONVERSION PAYMENTS
ORGANIC FARMING
The increase in organic conversion payments for arable land from £100 to £180 per acre in April 1999 has encouraged an extra 280 farmers to 'go organic'. The scheme had previously only attracted 400 farmers since it started in 1993.
PROPERTY-RURAL AND NATURAL ASSETS-AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY-AGRICULTURAL LAND-ARABLE LAND
ORGANIC CONVERSION PAYMENTS
ORGANIC FARMING