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'The government is no longer allowed to issue a one-year lease'
The House of Representatives no longer wants the Central Government Real Estate Agency to spend the 40.000 hectares of agricultural land it owns on a one-year lease. The government must also create a scheme that gives farmers a lease discount on the land they lease from the Central Government Real Estate Agency. Provided they work on sustainable business operations.
On Tuesday afternoon, December 7, the House voted on motions submitted during the debate on the agricultural budget last week. Pieter Grinwis (ChristenUnie), Derk Boswijk (CDA), Tjeerd de Groot (D66) and Thom van Campen (VVD) proposed this motion on the lease. Agricultural entrepreneurs must have long-term certainty about their lease contract, so that long-term investments can be made, they report. Sustainability must also be rewarded by the government. More and more parties (such as ASR, Rabobank and Vitens) are rewarding farmers through lease contracts for sustainable business operations and good care for the soil, according to the motion.
Resistance development
A motion by Roelof Bisschop (SGP) also made it. The House therefore approved multi-year co-financing of practical trials within the framework of the 2030 Implementation Program for the Future Vision for Crop Protection. the package of resources can actually lead to resistance development and increased substance use.
Settlement appeal internally
The House also believes that not the farmer, but the government is responsible for the legal certainty of the possibility of internal netting. The reason is the annulment by the court in the Central Netherlands of decisions taken by the province of Utrecht earlier about seventeen agricultural companies and one slaughterhouse, partly because the Rav emission factors for low-emission stables are insufficiently certain. The issue does not stand alone and is also an issue in other provinces, argue petitioners Thom van Campen (VVD) and Derk Boswijk (CDA). Parliament asks the government to provide the provinces with maximum support in appeal cases.
Poverty among farmers
The House of Representatives also wants Wageningen Economic Research to investigate whether there is long-term poverty among agricultural families. A motion submitted by Caroline van der Plas (BBB) about this during the debate on the agricultural budget was adopted on Tuesday 7 December. According to Van der Plas, more than 33% of agricultural and horticultural companies have a family income below the low-income threshold. The government needs to map out more specifically which type of companies are below the limit and for what period.
A very short motion by Derk Jan Eppink (JA21) also made it: "Farmers deserve a fair price for selling their land." What a fair price, is at your own discretion.
Linda van Eekeres
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