The Agriculture Collective feels sidelined by Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten in the consultations about the nitrogen measures. The association of farmers' organizations writes this Sunday in a statement. According to the collective, Schouten simply puts together laws and regulations without farmers being aware of this. 'While the farmers will soon be able to deliver the desired nitrogen reduction.'
The Agricultural Collective reports that since last Monday, December 3, there has been no consultation between the farmers and Minister Schouten. While last week, the collective emphasizes, an Emergency Nitrogen Act has been adopted in the House of Representatives containing measures that affect the sector in detail. The government also has contact with the provinces revised nitrogen rules drawn up, which will be decided by the Provincial Executive of the 12 provinces this week.
External netting
In a letter to Parliament dated 4 December, Minister Schouten also announced a make decisions about external netting, whereby production rights of livestock farms can be taken. "All without any form of consultation with farmers," the collective writes. This attitude of the minister stings the farmers' organizations even more, because Schouten has indicated in the media in recent days that he is 'talking' with the Agricultural Collective.
The collective is still hoping for a motion passed by MPs Jaco Geurts (CDA) and Mark Harbers (VVD) in the House of Representatives, in which parliament urges the minister to seriously consider the nitrogen plan of the Agriculture Collective. The collective understands that with the current political moves the 'farmers are fed up and no longer want to be ignored.' With this, the group certainly refers to the large-scale action that Farmers Defense Force is organizing.
Using farm plan
The Agricultural Collective therefore calls on the minister once again to refer to the farmers' plan 'From the created nitrogen impasse' as a starting point for a nitrogen agreement. 'The farmers' plan reduces nitrogen considerably more than that of the minister and creates sufficient scope for the introduction of a higher threshold value in the short term. The plan also allows housing construction to go ahead for years. All this without locking down the sector and unnecessarily threatening the survival of farms.'
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The agricultural collective's plan is extremely expensive and offers no solution whatsoever. It makes sense that it has been pushed aside. The plan requires that all released nitrogen space remains available for the agricultural sector, so that a profit of 0% is achieved. No room for nature restoration, no room for (housing) construction and many billions of subsidies.
I, like many, therefore wonder very much in what way this plan is a solution to the problem. It makes sense that you would be kicked out. Or actually deliberately goes out of the way and then complains to the referee and in the meantime calls hooligans to riot.
The agricultural collective's plan is extremely expensive and offers no solution whatsoever. It makes sense that it has been pushed aside. The plan requires that all released nitrogen space remains available for the agricultural sector, so that a profit of 0% is achieved. No room for nature restoration, no room for (housing) construction and many billions of subsidies.
I, like many, therefore wonder very much in what way this plan is a solution to the problem. It makes sense that you would be kicked out. Or actually deliberately goes out of the way and then complains to the referee and in the meantime calls hooligans to riot.
