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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Agriculture and Environment. Future of European Rural Development . Cracow , 30 November – 1 December 2005. National Agri-environmental Programme 2004-2006. Usual good farming practices 7 packages
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Agriculture and Environment Future of European Rural Development. Cracow, 30 November – 1 December 2005
National Agri-environmental Programme 2004-2006 • Usual good farming practices • 7 packages • Plan of AE commitments elaborated by AE field officer
Packages • „sustainable farming”, based on fertilisers’ input reduction, balancing of fertilisers’ management and utilisation and on keeping a proper crop rotation; • „organic farming”, based on utilisation of organic farming methods in the meaning of the Act on organic farming; • „maintenance of extensive meadows”, related to re-introduction or continuation of grass-cutting, starting from the 1st July (or 15 August), on meadows of high nature values, endangered with degradation; • „maintenance of extensive pastures” based on usage of low-input grazing as the main way of land management on semi-natural habitats, traditionally managed as pastures;
Packages • „water and soil protection”, based on intercrops implementation, in order to increase the share of soils covered by plants during the autumn – winter period; • „buffer zones”, based on maintaince or introduction of buffer zones and strips in order to protect water, soils and biodiversity • „protection of local farm animal races”, based on maintenance of local race farm animals herds (horses, cattle and sheep), that are endangered with extinction.
Implementation of NAPtill 18th of November Number of applications – 31.650 soil and water protection – 15.620, organic farming – 6.995, buffer zones – 64, extensive meadows and pastures – 7.018 Amount – 298.108.085 PLN Area – 543.064 ha
New agri-environmental programme • New approach based on prior experiences • Verification of existing packages • New packages (pond package, water pool, protection of local plants, mosaic of arable land)
Remarks on implementation of agri-environmental programmes • Relatively high absorption • Agri-environmental advisers • Regionalization in implementation of some packages • Low number of packages • Low payments
Agri-environmental programme 2007 - 2013 • Programming based on prior experiences • New possibilities (Natura 2000 payments, non-productive investments) • New agri-environmental packages
Agri-environmental programme 2007 - 2013 • Basic conditions and the beneficiary according to the on-going programme • Application procedure – based on the on-going system (modification in application form and agri-environmental plan).
Agri-environmental programme 2007 - 2013 • Horizontal approach (possibility of regionalization of payments and requirements) • Usual good farming practice and „cross – compliance” • Modification of the packages and new packages
Agri- environmental packages2007 - 2013 • Nature packages (basic package, valuable grassland); • Water packages (buffer zones, water-pools, extensive ponds) • Arable land packages (integrated production, biological production, anti-erosion package, mosaic of arable land)