Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, has confirmed two funding schemes to support investment in on farm infrastructure, which will help to build resilience to the potential impact of climate change.
The package of measures is part of the commitment under Co-operation Agreement with Plaid Cymru, to work with the farming community in the deployment of the regulations to improve water and air quality.
£20 million has been committed for two schemes to support farmers reach compliance with The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021. The Nutrient Management Investment Scheme and the Small Grants – Yard Coverings scheme, will open shortly.
Both schemes are designed to enable farmers to address nutrient management and storage by providing support for additional slurry storage capacity and/or prevent rainwater entering slurry stores to reduce storage capacity requirement.
The support has been increased to provide a maximum 50% contribution towards certain project costs. Detailed guidance will be available shortly with both schemes open by the summer.
Further details on the schemes will be available at Rural grants and payments.
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