Farmers in Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) are set to receive the remaining 15% of their money as balancing of payments has been announced by the Department of Agriculture.

“The commencement of the ANC balancing payments now brings the total paid under the 2019 ANC Scheme to date to almost €238m to 95,000 farmers. I am very aware of the importance to farmers of the ANC Scheme, and the budget for the scheme has been increased again this year to €250m”.

Regulations

In previous years, the full ANC payment was issued in one amount, but this year changes to EU regulations meant that the payments had to be issued in two stages.

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