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England has a long tradition of animal welfare, being the first country in the world to enact animal welfare legislation. [30] Animal welfare legislation affecting agriculture includes the Animal Welfare Act 2006, the Welfare of Farmed Animals Regulations 2007 and the Welfare of Animals Order 1997. The UK in general has a good reputation for ...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the entire United Kingdom.
Animal welfare laws are enforced by local authorities. A 2024 report by the Animal Law Foundation found there to be one local authority inspector for every 878 farms in England, Scotland and Wales and that in 2022 and 2023, 2.5% of the more than 300,000 UK farms were inspected at least once. [6]
This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England, 9% from Scotland, 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales. [3] [75] [76 ...
The Act gave farmers an assured market and guaranteed prices for their produce, the objective of this being, in the words of the Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams, "to promote a healthy and efficient agriculture capable of producing that part of the nation's food which is required from home sources at the lowest price consistent with the provision of adequate remuneration and decent living ...
Dozens of green campaigners are calling on the Government to support farmers and address the “broken” state of England’s agriculture sector. The Wildlife Trusts and WWF are among numerous ...
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Prior to Brexit, the RPA delivered the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments to farmers and traders in England, paying out over £2 billion in subsidies each year. [1]
The Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. c. 47) was a UK Act of Parliament under which the Agricultural Wages Board regulated the amount that farm workers were paid, in order to guarantee a fair minimum wage scale, depending, for example, on type of work, or years of experience.