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Rural Affairs Secretary announces CAP implementation plan.
June 30, 2014 in Farming / Crofting category
The package of measures to support Scottish farming, food production, rural communities and the environment has been announced by Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Lochhead outlined how the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be implemented in Scotland including plans for direct farm payments and Scotland’s rural development programme between 2015 and 2020. The new system has been developed following extensive discussions and consultation with industry organisations and the public. It includes tough new rules to ensure only genuinely active farmers are entitled to direct payments as well as specific support for
News from Scottish Crofting Federation
June 27, 2014 in Farming / Crofting category
The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) ran a very well-received debut intermediate-level crofting training seminar in Newtonmore recently on ‘Sustain, Diversify and Grow’ crofting enterprise. SCF’s Chief Executive Patrick Krause, who opened the seminar, said, “Diversification is a trade-mark of crofting. A well-rehearsed piece of advice given to farm businesses over the past couple of decades has been to diversify and this is of course what has given crofting resilience.