Defra Secretary Michael Gove is likely to come under pressure to deliver long term government funding for UK agriculture, at the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday.
Gove is expected to say that he is making the case within government for long-term investment in farming after Brexit.
“While I cannot pre-empt the outcome of the Government’s Spending Review later this year, I can continue to demonstrate the case for, and put in place the policies that underpin, long-term investment in British agriculture and the rural economy,” a draft of Gove’s speech reads.
The draft speech states that Gove will pledge “investment in research, development and innovation” and “recognise the need for farmers to have the certainty to plan”.
Current levels of funding from the EU’s CAP have been guaranteed to UK farmers by the government until the end of the current parliament, which is expected in 2022.
“A week can be a long time in politics, but farming requires the patience and foresight to see beyond the immediate and scan the far horizon. It is a quintessentially long-term business, one that benefits from as much certainty as possible about the future,” Gove is expected to say on Thursday.
At a fringe event at Oxford on Wednesday, National Farmers’ Union tenant forum chair Chris Cardell described the £3.5bn that UK farmers currently receive in CAP payments each year as the cheapest insurance policy that the government could have.
He said that the government needs to maintain payments to UK farmers after Brexit so that farms are viable to produce food and look after the environment.
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Defra Secretary Michael Gove is likely to come under pressure to deliver long term government funding for UK agriculture, at the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday.
Gove is expected to say that he is making the case within government for long-term investment in farming after Brexit.
“While I cannot pre-empt the outcome of the Government’s Spending Review later this year, I can continue to demonstrate the case for, and put in place the policies that underpin, long-term investment in British agriculture and the rural economy,” a draft of Gove’s speech reads.
The draft speech states that Gove will pledge “investment in research, development and innovation” and “recognise the need for farmers to have the certainty to plan”.
Current levels of funding from the EU’s CAP have been guaranteed to UK farmers by the government until the end of the current parliament, which is expected in 2022.
“A week can be a long time in politics, but farming requires the patience and foresight to see beyond the immediate and scan the far horizon. It is a quintessentially long-term business, one that benefits from as much certainty as possible about the future,” Gove is expected to say on Thursday.
At a fringe event at Oxford on Wednesday, National Farmers’ Union tenant forum chair Chris Cardell described the £3.5bn that UK farmers currently receive in CAP payments each year as the cheapest insurance policy that the government could have.
He said that the government needs to maintain payments to UK farmers after Brexit so that farms are viable to produce food and look after the environment.
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