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Agriculture: Forestry

Commons · Question 47936 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 1 May 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will expand agroforestry support to include (a) multiple species and (b) increased tree planting density.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 1 May 2025

Our in-field agroforestry offers under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes allow flexibility for land managers to decide on tree species and densities that suit their objectives, to realise the multiple benefits that trees provide in the farmi...