The coalition thinks a nice dot on the horizon. Nothing dot, it is just on the current road says the left and green side of the opposition on the agricultural race in the provincial states in Drenthe.
There are not yet concrete measures, but the agricultural vision is a start of a process to come to ‘future -proof agriculture’ in 2040. According to divorcing agricultural -deputy Jisse Otter (BBB) it does indeed indicate in a direction. The policy must ‘align with the reality of the agricultural entrepreneur’ with less nationwide rules and more ‘target management’ in areas.
Drenthe applies in many places in agriculture that ‘target management’ applies through the so -called critical performance indicators (KPIs). That is a system of setting goals and rewarding farmers when they achieve those goals. With regard to the left and green parties, there are also sharp agreements and rules. Only with KPIs you will not make it, is their message.
Coalition partners VVD and BBB are of course happy with the course. This is about food security with good farmers and a lot of innovation, says BBB leader Willem Vosseveld. And it’s about farmers who are in balance with nature and continue with the KPIs. “Those goals must be achieved in area processes, so with those involved from those areas.” Read: together with the farmers.
The most important criticism of the opposition is that the course is too vague and too little worked out. “You can only have a course if you also have a goal,” says Groups Bos of GroenLinks. “The goal is nice and vague in this course.”
Links and green (D66, GL, PvdD, Pormes, Volt) do not find the race sustainable enough. This course is nothing new for this part of the opposition, but a ‘continuation of the old one we have been working on for years’. SP’er Greetje Dikkers is surprised. “We now have an agricultural race while the national course is totally missing.”
The right side of the opposition also wants a more detailed agricultural race. “To give farmers more clarity,” says Harry Omlo (Ja21). The PVV came with an amendment. In cow letters, the agricultural vision must be found: “Agriculture is of great provincial importance.”
PvdA and D66 want choices to be made about which agriculture is allowed where. For example where and where no lily cultivation. They also point to the Masterclass Agriculture of agricultural professor Rudy Rabbinge. He explained to Drenthe politicians that you should not farm on some pieces or sometimes extensively. Intensive and large -scale must be in places that are suitable for this.
The ChristenUnie wants to go to areas where agriculture is the main goal and areas where not. Gerben Brandsema: “In the design for the new Environmental Vision, I see something of it, but not in the agricultural race.”
Marloes Kramer-Hammenga van Volt is missing an integration vision on bulb cultivation Drenthe in the agricultural race. A sympathetic motion from JA21 to build a bridge between the two camps in the lily breeding issue did not make it.
Deputy Otter stood firm: “The course is a dot on the horizon in consultation with agriculture. It is a course for strong agriculture that contributes to nature and climate goals. Choices and the environmental vision are not ahead of it. And in my opinion. we are not about what farmers are doing. “
Opposition and coalition are also not on a line on manure rules. In current regulations, farmers have to remove animal manure because they have too much. And that is nitrogen again. In addition, they have to supply expensive fertilizer to fertilize the fields sufficiently.
The VVD therefore wants a Drenthe-wide test with the permission of the agricultural minister to use only animal manure again. Roelof Oosting: “With just as much nitrogen as the sum of fertilizer and animal manure that the farmers can now use. So no more. And if that permitted amount drops, that also falls in the test.”
Otter thinks that is a good idea. Making fertilizer costs a horrible amount of energy. “As many as 3 billion cubic meters of gas, 10 percent of our total use, merges with fertilizer production.” Otter thinks it is a bizarre situation that we supplement animal manure with expensive and environmentally unfriendly fertilizer.
The opposition is suspicious and suspect Oosting that he wants to relax the manure rules and therefore the amount of animal manure for farmers.