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English Farms to Get Post-Brexit Subsidies for Going Greener

  • Details announced for how farmers will get incentive payments
  • Payments will be for measures like looking after hedgerows
As part of the incentives to be rolled out, farmers can also get paid for not using insecticides.

As part of the incentives to be rolled out, farmers can also get paid for not using insecticides.

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English farmers will be able to claim payments for sustainable practices such as looking after hedgerows as part of an overhaul of the post-Brexit agriculture sector.

The UK’s exit from the European Union allowed it to leave the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy, where farmers get payments based on the land they work. Those in Britain have suffered from high costs in the wake of the pandemic and Brexit, and the government said the incentives will provide more certainty for growers to make business plans as direct payments are phased out.