UK - Farmers being hurt
12 Apr 2010
THE beleaguered Rural Payments Agency has been ordered to slash the amount it spends on processing payments to farmers. Hear informed debate in the programme we produce especially for Yorkshire's rural communities.
The agency will have to shave 15 per cent off its costs and must improve its absence rates and reduce the number of errors it makes in the distribution of payments. But is it a case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted?
In this edition of the programme, Digital Editor David Behrens and the Yorkshire Post's Agricultural Correspondent Mark Casci ask whether an efficiency drive at the RPA is too little, too late.
Also this week... the new voluntary code that will replace the age-old farm policy of set-aside. And we report on the farmer travelling the world to help save our own dairy industry.
Source: yorkshirepost
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