Sowing Success: UK’s Farm Support Schemes Changing the Game
For decades the UK took part in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and by 2019 was receiving around £4.7 billion of CAP funding. Around 80% of this was provided as ‘direct payments’ under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) based broadly on how much land was farmed. A further tranche of CAP money was spent on rural and environmental programmes such as England’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme.
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