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  • EFS Higher Non-Productive Investments (NPIs) - Trees / Guards

    Topics:
    • Biodiversity, 
    • Countryside Management and Managing your Business, 
    • Grants and Funding, 
    • Rural Affairs, 
    • Agricultural & Environmental Schemes, 
    • Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)

    Date published: 22 February 2018

    Last updated: 8 May 2024

    Information sheets in relation to the Environmental Farming Scheme (Higher) Non-Productive Investments (NPIs) for trees & guards.

    Documents

    • Spiral tree guard and cane (TGC) - for agreements commencing 2023Adobe PDF (135.16 KB)
    • Spiral tree guard and cane (TGC) - for agreements commencing before 2023Adobe PDF (112.34 KB)
    • 1.2m tubular tree guard and stake (TGS) - for agreements commencing before 2023Adobe PDF (166.39 KB)
    • Native tree whip (NTW)Adobe PDF (267.76 KB)
    • Standard fruit tree (SFT)Adobe PDF (302.28 KB)
    • Standard parkland tree (SPT)Adobe PDF (254.34 KB)
    • (T7) Parkland Fruit Standard Native Tree Guard (SNT) EFS Information April 2024Microsoft Word (31.42 KB)
    • (T7) Parkland Fruit Standard Native Tree Guard (SNT) EFS information sheet - (H) - NPI - April 2024Microsoft Word (27.69 KB)
    • (T7) 1.2m tubular tree guard and stake (TGS) EFS information sheet (H) NPI - April 2024Microsoft Word (29.23 KB)
    • (T7) Parkland Fruit Standard Native Tree Guard (SNT) EFS information sheet - (H) - NPI - April 2024Microsoft Word (27.63 KB)
    • (T7) Parkland Fruit Standard Native Tree Stake (SNS) EFS information sheet - (H) - NPI - April 2024Microsoft Word (30.37 KB)
    • (T7) Spiral tree guard and cane (TGC) EFS information sheet - (H) NPI - April 2024Microsoft Word (29.03 KB)

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