AGRICULTURAL STRATEGY 2019-29 ISLE OF MAN HIGH LEVEL PRINCIPLES Sustaining a vibrant Agriculture sector, enabled to deliver a reliable and profitable food chain, while maintaining and enhancing the Island’s natural environment and capital
Key Objectives The Environment Supporting Active Farming Productivity Investment
The Environment Providing support for targeted initiatives that produce conserved and cherished landscapes: • Enhance biodiversity • Sequester carbon • Tree planting and Peat enhancement. • Improve bathing water quality • Reduce flood risk • Address the land management components of the imminent Climate Change Action Plan.
Supporting Active Farming • Ensuring that financial support is targeted at businesses producing food • Advisory support • Vocational training
Productivity • Supporting marketing efficiency • Knowledge transfer • Benchmarking and advice to sustainably improve farm profitability
Investment • Increasing investment through capital grants • Building business confidence and profitability.
How will we achieve this - Environment Uplands • New Uplands Stewardship Scheme – Payments based on appropriate / enhanced habitat management plans – Plans periodically reviewed as part of the scheme. • Changing ADS flat rate payment Support the land Management components of the imminent Climate Change Action Plan
How will we achieve this - Environment Agri Environment • Lowland o Soil • Crop nutrient management plans o Arable initiatives • Winter stubble, field margin and hedge management payments. o Maintenance, enhancement and creation of desirable habitats • Hedges and dry stone wall repair • Low cost, big impact Biodiversity efforts • Bat Boxes, Wildlife Boxes, scrapes etc. • Upland • Support for drain blocking, fixing chronic erosion, creating buffer zones etc. “Phase II of the scheme will focus on emissions” Support the land Management components of the imminent Climate Change Action Plan
Dubs, ponds and scrapes Purpose: to extend and create new Dubs, ponds and scrapes. These features have great value to native birds, small mammals and invertebrates and are capable of developing a diverse natural ground flora.
Winter Fodder Crops Payment for growing winter fodder crops e.g. forage rape, kale or turnips Purpose: to provide cover and feeding areas for birds such as partridge, yellowhammer, skylark, and flocks of finches, including linnet.
Biennial wild bird seed mix strips Purpose: To provide a year round habitat for wildlife such as pollinators and birds.
How will we achieve this – Supporting Active Farmers • Continue an appropriate level of flat rate support for active farmers. • New stewardship payments for the Uplands • Support for specific highly sensitive sites. • Capital Grant scheme – Enhance profitable productivity by supporting investment in capital assets and the adoption of new technologies – FYM/Slurry storage and pollution control systems – Diversification and food processing – Discretionary public access improvements • Productivity advice • Ongoing processor support
How will we achieve this – Productivity • Create an Environment where sustainable productive agriculture can flourish. • Provide an Advisory infrastructure – Benchmarking, Monitor farm, peer to peer advice etc. • Support, where appropriate new and existing food processing businesses • Provide Food and Marketing support
How will we achieve this – Investment • Increase investment Technical – Agricultural advisory signposting. – Training – Industry education on and off Island – Supporting CPD
Financial Grant Support Budget 2018/19 2021/22 Trend Direct support £6,034,000 £4,911,000 £-1,123,000 Active farmer £140,000 £320,000 £180,000 Productivity £170,000 £370,000 £200,000 Investment £500,000 £1,200,000 £700,000 Environmental £ - £1,043,000 £1,043,000 Initiatives Total £6,844,000 £7,844,000 £1,000,000
Why Now? • In preparation for the new scheme year – We need to inform the sector so they can start planning • Re-visit the scheme once the Climate Change Bill has Tynwald approval • The scheme is already clearly laid out to embrace future environmental changes. • It targets support towards those actively farming • Supports Climate Change through; – Tree planting – Peat enhancement – More work on emissions required • Bathing water quality – Catchment management • Slurry & Soil – Land Management Developing a scheme for the future of the Isle of Man
Reductions to Flat Rate 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 £78.20 £73.64 £69.08 £64.52 LOWLANDS (BML) 94% 88% 83% £13.03 £13.03 £8.21 £8.21 UPLANDS (AML) 100% 63% 63% The decrease in uplands payment has been allocated to the Uplands Stewardship Scheme
Livestock Exports Sheep and Lamb Exports Cumulative Cattle Exports 2017-2019 > 6 months 2017-2019 4500 25000 4000 20000 3500 3000 15000 2500 2000 10000 1500 5000 1000 500 0 0 J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
Cattle processed on Island Cattle processed on Island % Total Cattle throughput “Meat Plant” 2017-2019 2017-2019 4,500 90.00% 4,000 80.00% 3,500 70.00% 3,000 2,500 60.00% 2,000 50.00% 1,500 40.00% 1,000 30.00% 500 20.00% 0 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
Sheep processed on Island Total Lamb & Hogget Throughput Cumulative Lamb Utilisation % 2017-2019 2017-2019 80.00% 35,000 30,000 70.00% 25,000 60.00% 20,000 50.00% 15,000 40.00% 10,000 30.00% 5,000 0 20.00% 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
Agricultural Strategy 2019-29
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