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Farming Today: 30/11/20 Plans for a future without farm subsidies. Landscapes damaged as walkers leave footpaths.

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30/11/20 Plans for a future without farm subsidies. Landscapes damaged as walkers leave footpaths.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 30/11/20 Plans for a future without farm subsidies. Landscapes damaged as walkers leave footpaths.

Government reveals details of scheme to replace EU subsidies. C19 and damaged footpaths.

As farm subsidies are phased out, Defra Minister George Eustice outlines how the Government will pay farmers in future. Environmental schemes will be at the fore.

As we leave the EU, farmers will also be leaving the subsidies they've been receiving under the Common Agricultural Policy.  Instead the Government wants to reward them for environmental schemes. Defra Secretary of State George Eustice says he wants to give farmers incentives for more sustainable land management. He says the changes will be phased in and the new system will support innovation and productivity and cut red tape.

Social distancing is damaging mountain landscapes. The National Trust for Scotland says walkers are leaving footpaths as they try to stay two metres apart and it's wearing the hillsides away.

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