Producing meat would treble in cost if subsidies for farmers didn’t exist, a Powys councillor has said.
At a recent Powys County Council meeting, councillors debated a motion by Conservative Councillor Lucy Robert asking the Welsh Government to pause and reconsider the Sustainable Farming Scheme.
Head of legal and monitoring officer, Clive Pinney told these councillors they could take part in the debate but not vote on the motion. “It has been drawn up by people with no knowledge of agriculture, no knowledge of cefn gwlad and no knowledge of the culture.” She believed that the scheme had been “misrepresented” had caused untold “distress” and those who had spoken in favour have been subjected to “abuse and intimidation.”
Liberal Democrat, Councillor Adam Kinnerley said that the debate should not be “environmentalists versus farmers.” He argued that the council itself needed to engage with the farming community around what the “future of farming” looks like in Powys.
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