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First Minister blames Brexit for situation faced by Welsh farmers (nation.cymru)

submitted 2 years ago by Navarian@lemm.ee to c/wales@lemm.ee

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The First Minister has said famers in Wales would be in a “very different position” if they hadn’t taken the advice of Andrew RT Davies and voted for Brexit.

The fiery exchange took place during First Minister’s Questions on Tuesday (February 20) when the leader of the Tory Senedd group pressed Mark Drakeford on planned Welsh Government reforms.

This week, the outgoing First Minister was accused of patronising the agriculture sector after warning farmers they could not decide themselves what to do with millions in government subsidies.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What’s the balance here? If the government wants trees planted then they’re encouraging that with money, why are the farmers complaining about needing to plant trees to get the money? I understand that farmers live or die from subsidies, but they can just keep planting crops right? It’s not taking away existing subsidies.

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Existing subsidies don't exist any more really, Brexit ended any outside 'investment' in the Welsh agriculture sector.

Here's my comment from a previous post that might explain a little more for you.

I think they’re not looking into specifics with each farm in this case, which is a large part of the reason many of the farmers here are struggling to understand/accept the proposals. Time will tell if the Welsh Government intends to ignore that issue or if they want to try and work with the farmers in situations where having 10% of their land as forest is unreasonable/impossible, whatever the reason.

Also for what it's worth - a majority of farmers, in Wales specifically, did not back Brexit - I've seen a lot of "Well they voted for it so why are they mad", which is inaccurate.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I see. Thank you for the explanation. I’ve watched clarkson’s farm and that’s about all the knowledge I have of the farming situation in Europe.