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The Small Holdings Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 31) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Lord Salisbury's Conservative government.. The Act intended to help agricultural labourers purchase small holdings of land by giving County Councils the power to advance money to the labourer up to the limit of one penny in the pound of the county rate. [1]
The Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales (ALTW) is a tribunal sponsored by the Welsh Government that deal with disputes related to agricultural holdings. [1]It is established under Section 73 of the Agriculture Act 1947, and also has powers under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and Land Drainage Act 1991. [2]
The climate and topography of Wales is such that there is little arable land, and livestock farming has traditionally been the focus of agriculture. Wales is formed from an exposed mountainous region over 2,000 ft (600 m) in the northwest of the country, encompassing much of what is now Gwynedd, and an upland area of acidic moorland between 600 ...
Local authority smallholdings in Wales are the subject of annual public reports made by the Welsh Ministers. [256] The Report for 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 [257] Just under 1% of total 1.9 M hectares Welsh farm land was held as smallholdings. At 31 March 2022 there were 884 tenants holding 969 tenancies. 62% of the tenancies were under 20 ...
The AOS was registered in April 1901 as a non-party and non-trading body whose main purpose was to ‘secure the co-operation of all connected with the land, whether as owners, occupiers or labourers, and to promote the formation of agricultural co-operative societies for the purchase of requisites, for the sale of produce, for agricultural credit banking and insurance, and for all other forms ...
The Land Settlement Association was a UK Government scheme set up in 1934, with help from the charities the Plunkett Foundation and the Carnegie Trust, to re-settle unemployed workers from depressed industrial areas, [1] particularly from North-East England and Wales. Between 1934 and 1939 1,100 small-holdings were established within 20 ...
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
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.