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Glastir (Welsh Green land) is a sustainable land management scheme in Wales launched by the Welsh Assembly Government in 2012. Its goals include "combating climate change, improving water management and maintaining and enhancing biodiversity." It aims to "deliver measurable outcomes at both a farm and landscape level in a cost effective way".
Farmers will have to commit to planting trees on 10% of their land and another 10% for wildlife habitat as part of the Labour-run government’s scheme.
In 2014, there were 1855 milk-producers in Wales, an annual decline of 1.23% since 2011, but the number of cows milked was nearly static at 223,000. [16] By April 2018 the number of dairy producers in Wales had fallen further, to 1723, but the number of dairy cows (2 years old or more) had increased to 301,400 by June 2017. [17]
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The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is an employer association representing farming and growing businesses within England and Wales. The NFU originated as the Lincolnshire Farmers' Union (LFU) which was founded in 1904. Over the next four years, similar farmers' organisations were established in neighbouring counties.
The minister also highlighted the impact of climate change on all sectors, including agriculture, saying it had "the most to gain" from the "interventions needed to give a strong and sustainable ...
Prior to the FUW, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) was the only organisation representing farming businesses in Wales.Increasingly, some Welsh members believed the NFU had been inadequate in negotiations during annual agricultural price review, and that the NFU prioritised big English farms over small Welsh ones.
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