Farmers Defense Force leader Mark van den Oever has announced new actions following the government’s plan to adopt Johan Remkes’ nitrogen advice. “It’s completely wrong,” says Van den Oever. According to him, the farmers will ‘give the old-fashioned gas again, count on that’, he says in a vlog on YouTube. When and what kind of actions, the farmers’ action group does not yet know.
Van den Oever believes that the ministers have not listened to the farmers. He says the farmers don’t want to be patronized. “The government imposes far too much on the company,” says Van Keimpema. This mainly concerns the plans on how to divide the land (‘zoning’). According to the plans, provinces must create regional maps that indicate where certain branches of agriculture are more suitable. Companies would then have to be relocated in due course. “This is a red line for us,” says FDF spokesman Sieta van Keimpema.
Agriculture minister
The plans of agriculture minister Piet Adema and nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal also state that they will record agreements with farmers in an agricultural agreement. In addition, the focus is on ‘reporters’, farms that currently do not have the correct nitrogen permit through no fault of their own. According to Van den Oever, the latter is the only good plan of the ministers.
The government believes it is important that farmers feel valued again. The aim is to restore trust. Farmers’ action group Agractie approves of these intentions and wants them to be translated into action. That writes foreman Bart Kemp on Friday.
Nitrogen Ejectors
The ministers call it ambitious to put an end to the emissions of the five to six hundred most polluting nitrogen emitters within a year. They want to go for a ‘phased approach’. Agractie again emphasizes that the group does not agree with farmers being bought out involuntarily.