Question reference: S5W-30717
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 15 July 2020
-
Current status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to set out the progress it has made in developing an Agricultural Transformation Programme.
Answer
The key purpose of the Agricultural Transformation Programme is to promote long term change for the future and will need to take account of current support as well as the recommendations of groups such as the Farming and Food Production Future Policy Group. Details of the Programme are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. An initial award of £1.5 million has already been allocated to allow farmers and crofters to diversify into forestry, to establish new small-scale woodland and buy forestry and timber processing equipment.