Published:
3:42 PM May 27, 2021
Jake Fiennes is head of conservation at the Holkham estate and a member of the National Farmers Union (NFU) environment forum
- Credit: Denise Bradley
More than 200 East Anglian farmers have signed up to trial a new environmental payment scheme, set to replace subsidies being phased out after Brexit.
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is one of three tiers of the government s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management System (ELMS), which aims to replace the existing EU system of land-based subsidies with a new one rewarding farmers for providing public goods such as enhancing habitats and reducing carbon emissions.