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Brabant wants multi-year policy and favorable nature lease
For the period up to 2030, agriculture in North Brabant will be faced with significant challenges. For example, the province wants livestock farming to severely limit emissions. But it is also widely encouraged. Nature-inclusive agriculture the most. The province is also helping them with around 1.500 hectares of nature lease on favorable terms.
Responsible Commissioner Elies Lemkes makes in an interview with Boerenbusiness It is clear that it would like to maintain agricultural activity. In its own words, the province is particularly frugal with regard to small and medium-sized companies. Because of their economic importance, but especially because of their broad role in rural areas and in nature management.
Lemkes therefore wants to stimulate and encourage the necessary innovation, she says. Not only with advice vouchers and favorable leases, but also with the help of long-term policy certainty. For the first time, the province is drawing up a framework for this for a period of almost ten years. Brabant is therefore a frontrunner. Other provinces, such as Gelderland, are watching with interest. The draft policy framework is still available for inspection.
20% fewer cows
In the period up to 2030, it is foreseen that the acreage of dairy farming will decrease by 15.000 hectares and that there will be almost 20% fewer cows. The pig and chicken stock will also decrease further. To protect vulnerable nature, the province has already started buying up companies.
You can read the full interview with deputy Elies Lemkes this afternoon Boerenbusiness.NL.
Klaas van der Horst
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