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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

• f 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
• Soil
• Crop nutrient management plans
• Arable initiatives
• Winter stubble, field margin and hedge management

payments.

• 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.

• 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 – Supporting Active Farmers

• 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 – Productivity

• Increase investment

– Agricultural advisory signposting. – Training – Industry education on and off Island – Supporting CPD

How will we achieve this – Investment

Technical

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 Initiatives £ - £1,043,000 £1,043,000 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

LOWLANDS (BML)

£78.20 £73.64 £69.08 £64.52 94% 88% 83%

UPLANDS (AML)

£13.03 £13.03 £8.21 £8.21 100% 63% 63%

The decrease in uplands payment has been allocated to the Uplands Stewardship Scheme

Livestock Exports

Sheep and Lamb Exports 2017-2019 Cumulative Cattle Exports > 6 months 2017-2019

5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 J F M A M J J A S O N D 2017 2018 2019 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 J F M A M J J A S O N D 2017 2018 2019

Cattle processed on Island

Cattle processed on Island % 2017-2019

Total Cattle throughput “Meat Plant”

2017-2019

20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 90.00% 2017 2018 2019 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 2017 2018 2019

Sheep processed on Island

Total Lamb & Hogget Throughput 2017-2019 Cumulative Lamb Utilisation % 2017-2019

5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 2017 2018 2019 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 2017 2018 2019

Agricultural Strategy 2019-29

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