Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet secretary for rural affairs, Samuel Kurtz MS, said the SFS failed to prioritise food production and food security and was “not fit for purpose”.<\/p>\n
“Even in its revised form it is projected to result in job losses, reduced livestock numbers and declining farm business incomes across Wales,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Tories had pledged to urgently review and replace the SFS with a ‘food security first’ scheme, he said.<\/p>\n
Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson on rural affairs Llyr Gruffydd MS said while the SFS was now “much better” than the original proposal “there’s still much work to do”.<\/p>\n
“We have already called for a more gradual transition to the new scheme, giving the sector more time to adapt,” he said, adding that a Plaid Cymru government would also “provide multi-year funding certainty for agriculture rather than the current twelve-month commitment from Labour”.<\/p>\n
A Reform UK Wales spokesperson said the SFS “doesn’t have the confidence of farmers and is set to deal a hammer blow to the rural economy”.<\/p>\n
“The SFS needs to be changed to put food production and farmers at its centre, not green targets,” he said.<\/p>\n
Welsh Liberal Democrats leader Jane Dodds MS said the SFS gave “some much needed short term guarantees” to farmers “under sustained pressure from all corners”.<\/p>\n
But it was “not the scheme that the Welsh Lib Dems would have designed” and farmers needed “long term solutions”.<\/p>\n
The Green Party’s leader in Wales, Anthony Slaughter, said the government “needs to do much more to properly support farmers to make the changes our country and planet needs”.<\/p>\n
“The government and the public are asking for a lot so it can’t be done on the cheap. The scale of the transition means the scale of funding has to match – I’m not sure we’ve seen that commitment yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet secretary for rural affairs, Samuel Kurtz MS, said the SFS failed to prioritise food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-667825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115822512319922121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}