Defra limits land farmers can take out of food production under green incentive scheme

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Changes to Sustainable Farming Incentive mean applicants will only be able to put quarter of their land into six specified environmental actions that take land out of food production

The government has moved to clarify certain rules underpinning the use of its Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme, as it today setting out fresh measures designed to limit the amount of land farmers...

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