Ms Anne Jones:

I will refer to what we found over the time we had, which was relatively short for the scale of what we were trying to deliver.

There is a lot of misinformation and mixed information out there among the farming community, and wider than the farming community. In some way there has to be public or sectoral information, whether that is through websites, campaigns or whatever. Information needs to go out there. The word "biodiversity" is not really in the vocabulary of farmers; it represents what they have to do in order to comply with other things they are doing. I mention buffer zones, for instance. I have heard anecdotally that this is not something farmers are worried about and that they have questioned why they should establish them. Farmers have suggested that buffer zones could be this width or that width, depending on where the watercourse is located. There is a lot of information to be provided and the committee has a responsibility to ensure that information reaches the right people.