The regional board of farmers’ interest organization LTO Noord is no longer participating in the area-oriented approach to nitrogen in Overijssel. This department of the Agricultural and Horticultural Organization is the first to refuse to cooperate further in the consultation.
“Our unanimous conclusion is that we no longer see any leads that offer perspective to the agricultural sector, nor to individual farmers and horticulturists,” said the regional council in a letter to the province of Overijssel. RTV East about message.
A spokesperson for the national LTO does not yet know what the other departments are doing. “I expect to be able to report more about that later in the day,” he says.
Favorable terms
Minister Van der Wal recently came up with a plan to accelerate and, if necessary, force farmers to buy out in order to reduce nitrogen emissions. “The sooner farmers report to a stopper scheme, the more favorable the conditions”, she said† “Volunteousness saves time. Expropriation sounds and is not only very annoying, it also takes a lot of time.”
But the farmers in Overijssel, some of whom demonstrated yesterday in The Hague, do not feel like Van der Wal’s plans. Where the minister say that it “will make the squeeze-out arrangement ferociously attractive”, the farmers point out that it actually offers no alternative. In the letter they state that Van der Wal sets “unachievable” requirements for the nitrogen emissions of farmers who nevertheless want to continue.
The minister also does not come up with a solution for farmers who have expanded their business in the past year and “does not offer revenue models”, says the regional department of LTO. But it is especially troubling that she threatens to intervene if the area-oriented approach in Overijssel does not yield sufficient results.
“There is no perspective. We are prepared to participate again if we as an agricultural sector are offered perspective again.”
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