Sustainable Farming Incentive: Flood Prevention and Drought Resilience Debate
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Lord Fuller
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Sustainable Farming Incentive: Flood Prevention and Drought Resilience
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Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
As I have already said, when the new SFI offer opens, it will be targeted at small farms. It is important that we look at how we support all farmers to ensure that they can support us with our aims on food stability and security.
Lord Fuller (Con)
My Lords, does the Minister appreciate that the arbitrary cap on SFI, which was mentioned by the noble Lord opposite, militates against economies of scale and driving the farm productivity and profitability that the nation needs and the land use framework requires?
Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
The most important things we can do to move forward on farm profitability and to support farms are, first, to listen to them and, secondly, to look at what the noble Baroness, Lady Batters, says in her report. It is an extremely impressive, comprehensive report on how we improve farm profitability. We should listen to someone with her expertise and experience on how we move forward to increase farm profitability.