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DEFRA has unveiled how it plans to replace the current Hill Farm Allowance scheme.

From 2010, specific support to upland areas will be integrated into environmental stewardship schemes, to reward hill farmers for the environmental and landscape benefits they deliver. Uplands entry level stewardship (ELS) will be implemented by Natural England. Uplands ELS will be open to all upland farmers and land managers.

A Country Land and Business Association (CLA) statement said: "It is imperative that the new UELS scheme is available to all Upland farmers and allows sufficient flexibility for businesses to develop and help meet England's food and evironmental security challenge."

Since plans were announced in 2006 to replace the Hill Farm Allowance further work has been carried out to ensure that an uplands strand of ELS would deliver the best environmental benefit.

The proposals for Uplands ELS are still be finalised, and will be further refined over the summer. As well as continuing to work with stakeholder organisations, Defra will be seeking views from the wider hill farming community, and testing the proposals on a range of 60 hill farms to ensure it is practical for the farmers involved.

4:00pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

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