EIR/202400437707 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Greening payment claims by farmers: EIR release
Information requested
Information in regard to the number of farmers claiming Greening payments linked to agroforestry.
Response
How many farms are eligible for Green payments.
All businesses that have BPS entitlements are eligible to claim Greening which is a top up of BPS payment. For scheme year 2024 there are 17,338 businesses that have claimed BPS and have BPS entitlements.
How many farms have successfully claimed Greening payments (per year since 2015)
Scheme year No. businesses with a greening payment 2015 18,388 2016 17,899 2017 17.774 2018 17,679 2019 17,526 2020 17,535 2021 17,546 2022 17,456 2023 17,397 2024 15,603 (paid to date 29/10/24)
Please note that payments for 2024 scheme year is not complete therefore number of successful claims will increase.
What proportion and number of Greening applications include the Ecological Focus Area Agroforestry (EFAAS) option (per year since 2015)
The requirement to manage EFA areas is based on defined rules that are detailed within the Greening guidance based on claimed area of arable land. This results in businesses with large areas of grassland being exempt from having to manage EFA options.
Table shows number of businesses declaring an EFA agroforestry option and also those that actually have a EFA requirement under existing EFA rules that have declared the option.
Year EFA agroforestry actually have an EFA requirement 2015 2016 2017 2018 2 1 2019 2 2 2020 1 2021 2 2022 2 2023 7 3 2024 8 3
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