Written answers

Thursday, 13 May 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agriculture Schemes

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to permitting the land that grows hemp to be eligible for the single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25353/21]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Providing that all other standard requirements of the scheme are met, hemp is an eligible crop for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS). It was also an eligible crop under the Single Payment Scheme which preceded the BPS.

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