The lease system implemented by the national government, whereby farmers can bid on plots of agricultural land, leads to tension and unworkable situations. It writes about FD Wednesday.
The newspaper spoke to arable farmer Arnold Michielsen, leaseholder portfolio holder for LTO Nederland, about the 1.400 hectares issued by the Central Government Real Estate Agency in September. The current tenants are allowed to bid, but have no guarantee that they will be reassigned the land. For the same money - or better: for a little more money - the neighbor takes it off. Because, Michielsen knows, farmers will not fail to bid, even if they know they are duping a colleague. "That's bad blood."
Unworkable situations
Furthermore, sometimes unworkable situations arise. For example, a farmer in the Noordoostpolder who leased half of his acreage on a regular basis and the other half liberalized lost the liberalized part because other entrepreneurs wanted to pay more rent. As a result, his plans to expand his livestock were discarded.
There are also examples of farmers who invested heavily in converting land to organic cultivation and then had to relinquish the land to someone else after an auction, who would do something different with it.
Liberalized lease 'disastrous for the agricultural structure'
Michielsen calls liberalized leasehold 'disastrous for the agricultural structure' for several reasons. Not only will a farmer invest less in the land if he has only had it for 4 or 6 years, but also young people will not get a job, because no bank will want to finance their business. All too insecure. As a result, plots of farmers who have no successor and who quit are added to the remaining farms at the auction.
Mediator Sicko Heldoorn will submit a report within a month. He has heard all parties separately and advises State Secretary Martijn van Dam in order to impasse between tenants and lessees.
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Just leave it alone with that ground. Let them root for themselves and earn nothing
In Southern and Eastern Flevoland, soil mobility is extremely low. Buying is often not an option because there is hardly anything for sale! Speaking of sitting tenants: in most cases this is the Erf foundation, the last Kolkhoz in the Netherlands, a state company that presents itself as a private agricultural company through a BV form. It is high time that the land portfolio was cleaned up. Unfortunately, the mechalomaniac management sees nothing in this. Just trying to get more fingers in the door. (see the project new nature Flevoland) Where land from farmers would be bought and Flevolandscape could benefit from this together with Erf. At the expense of the incumbent farmers.
Here in the nop tenant of the state 24 ha total company leased by, sublease is 70 years old lives in a large house in the village Construction plan 4 ha tulips 4 ha chicory 4 ha carrots 4 ha barley 8 ha potatoes Is a member of lto
