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From: Carl Holmes
21 December 2008
Dear Sir or Madam,
could you introduce a farm bill that would give incentives to
farmers to encourage wildlife onto their farmland and go organic,
Farmers involved would plant hedgerows or leave hedgerows to grow,
blossom and fruit and maintain wide field margins where wild
flowers provide food and egg-laying areas for butterflies. Other
initiatives include the introduction of ponds, ditches, beetle
banks, skylark scrapes, barn own boxes, wetland, river
conservation, over wintered stubble and going organic. this should
include all farmers wherever they are situated catering for
different wildlife needs
the declining species such as brown hares, yellow hammers and even
the humble house sparrow are making a dramatic comeback on
participating farms that already help wildlife and this number
would dramatically grow with the introduction of this bill
Yours faithfully,
Carl Holmes
From: Helpline, Defra (CCU)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
21 December 2008
Thank you for your email.
If your enquiry seeks advice on irish pork, please follow the link to the
food standards agency [1]www.food.gov.uk who are responsible
for this issue. We have a target of replying to all emails within 15
working days.
If you need a reply before then, please call the Defra Helpline on 08459
33 55 77.
Many thanks,
Customer Contact Unit
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
14 January 2009
Dear Mr Holmes,
Thank you for your email of 21 December.
Information on the issues you raised, and how the Government is
encouraging farmers to adopt them, can be found at:
[1]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
[2]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
[3]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/organic/
I hope this is helpful.
Yours sincerely,
Customer Contact Unit
Defra
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only.
If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform
the sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked
for known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no
responsibility once it has left our systems.
Communications on Defra's computer systems may be monitored and/or
recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.
References
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1. http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
2. http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
3. http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/organic/
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