UK's post-Brexit farming subsidy plan draws anger from green groups

Cecilia Keating
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Farmers are set for a new subsidy scheme from next year focused on soil health
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Farmers are set for a new subsidy scheme from next year focused on soil health

Environmental groups warn measures farming incentive plans unveiled today fall far short of delivering the ‘nature-positive’ agriculture sector promised by government

A key pillar of the government's long-awaited plans to pay farmers for sustainable land management has been slammed as a "huge disappointment" by environmental campaigners, who have warned the measures...

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