Farmers warn Government on cost cuts

By James Hall Published: 11:12PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

In what is expected to be the majority politically-charged discussion for years, Peter Kendall, the NFU president, will contend that any short-term moves by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to have cost assets could repairs the UK"s farmers and furnish growers.

Hilary Benn, the cabinet member of state for the environment, food and tillage affairs, will residence the discussion tomorrow. He will be followed on the lectern by Nick Herbert, the shade cabinet member of state, and Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrats" DEFRA spokesman. All 3 parties will be opposed for the tillage opinion in the stirring ubiquitous choosing and will wish the tillage village onside.

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Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Kendall said: "We have got to discuss it them that knee-jerk cost-cutting will have an stroke on the viability of farming. We need a discuss on where assets are made."

He pronounced that food security and cattle illness will be high on the agenda. However, he pronounced that the NFU"s priority will be to spell out how DEFRA can most appropriate have the expected cost-savings that the Treasury will need of it. For example, he pronounced that estimate a explain for a Single Farm Payment costs �285 in Scotland but �1,740 in England.

"If they could get payments in England down to �500 it would save over �100m," he said. "We are not holding out a vagrant play for some-more subsidies. We are observant "work with us". The monetary black hole we are seeking at needs critical thought."