It was announced yesterday that English arable farmers will be able to fulfill their Ecological Focus Area requirement under the new Common Agricultural Policy by planting leguminous crops - peas, beans and other pulses – on 5% of their land. Ecological Focus Areas are one of the new compulsory greening measures, originally conceived as areas of land left out of production, or with low intensity production, managed or left alone to benefit wildlife.
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