Schemes closed: 1,700 Dutch farmers want to stop their business

The voluntary termination schemes are intended to reduce nitrogen emissions. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) will assess the applications in the coming period. An agreement will then be sent back to the farmer, who will have six months to sign it. It may therefore take another six months before it is finally known how many farmers are using the schemes. The Lbv schemes involve 1590 applications, of which 920 are for the Lbv-plus for peak polluters. Of these, 638 have already been granted, 123 applications have been withdrawn and 44 have been rejected. The Lbv scheme involves 571 grants, 78 rejections and 15 withdrawn applications. With 574 applications, the pig farming sector is the sector with the most applications for the Lbv schemes, followed by the dairy farming sector with 449, the poultry farming sector with 245, the calf farming sector with 212 and 110 holders of multiple animal species. New buy-out scheme At the request of the Lower House, Minister of Agriculture ...