Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability, Llyr Gruffydd MS, has announced that Welsh farmers will receive over £1 billion in funding across this Senedd term to support sustainable agriculture.
The commitment will deliver £340 million per year for three years to March 2030 for the Sustainable Farming Scheme, including a guaranteed £238 million per year for the Universal layer and £102 million for delivering the Optional and Collaborative Layers.
The move ends the year-to-year funding model, fulfilling a pledge made in the Plaid Cymru Government’s first 100 days to provide a multi-annual budget for the Sustainable Farming Scheme.
Following early feedback from the independent review into the bureaucratic burden on family farms, led by John Davies, the Minister also announced early action to cut red tape for farmers, including a simplification of the approach for the Animal Health Improvement Cycle (AHIC) in the Universal Layer of the Sustainable Farming Scheme, to be delivered in two parts.
