Agriculture: Subsidies
Commons · Question 49513 · Tabled 30 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 13 May 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to adapt farming subsidy schemes to encourage farmers to (a) house farmed animals in woodlands and (b) plant woodlands in permanent pasture.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 13 May 2025
Our in-field agroforestry offers under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes include support for establishing and maintaining silvopastoral systems, where trees are planted in pasture to realise their multiple benefits such as enhanced animal we...