Agri-Environment Measure under IPARD

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        Agri-environment Measure is innovative in the Turkish context as it encourages farmers to protect, maintain and enhance the environmental quality of their farmland. This measure adopts environmental-friendly and sustainable implementations supporting the conservation of soil, surface and ground water, biodiversity and high nature value agricultural lands.
        Agri-environment Measure is implemented as a pilot measure in the candidate countries. The payments are done in order to compensate the income losses originating from commitments. Agri-environment Measure under IPARD Programme consists of four sub-measures, these sub-measures and the pilot districts are given below:

• Management of soil cover and soil erosion control (Beypazarı)
• Water conservation (in pilot district selection phase)
• Biodiversity - enhancing the steppe bird population (Polatlı)
• Support for introduction and maintenance of organic agricultural production methods (in pilot district selection phase)

        Support is available for natural and legal persons registered under the Farmer Registry System who can hold the land cadastre ownership or a proof of lease at least for 5 years and who on a voluntarily basis makes the agri-environmental commitments. Minimum size of the agricultural parcel in respect of which an application may be made is 0,2 ha and the minimum size of the land to be applied for the support is 1 ha.
        As Managing Authority, our duty is to elaborate the measure fiches, calculate the payments and organize the awareness raising meetings and trainings.
        After discussions with the Commissions, it was decided to start with “Management of soil cover and soil erosion control sub-measure”. The accreditation has been given on 21.12.2016. Fourth Call for Application has been done for Agri-Environment Measure on 7 September 2018 and the applications have been taken for this sub-measure. Recently the implementations are successfully being carried out in the pilot district, Beypazarı. .

The applications for “management of soil cover and soil erosion control” sub-measure under Agri-Environment Measure were finalized in the pilot district, Beypazarı.

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The applications for “management of soil cover and soil erosion control” sub-measure under Agri-Environment Measure were finalized in the pilot district, Beypazarı. 96 farmers applied for this innovative sub-measure. The obligatory training for farmers was provided by the experts of Department of Managing Authority for Structural Adjustment and Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution in November 2018 and March 2019.

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