'Resilience payment' to be central to new NI farm support proposals
Civil servants in Northern Ireland have given the first official outline of how new farm support payments could look in the region post-2021. Rosemary Agnew, director of the department’s Brexit Food and Farming Group, told the Stormont Agriculture Committee on Thursday (January 28) the main form of support would likely be a ‘Basic Income Support Payment’. “[It will be] very, very similar, but a simplified version of what the Basic Payment Scheme is,” she said. “And that would be a basic resilience payment. [The minister has also begun to outline his] thoughts around bringing for...
Source: agriland.ie