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  • Area-based schemes 2022

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    • Grants and Funding, 
    • Area-based Schemes
    Single Application submission service opens on 1 March 2022. Submit your application by 16 May 2022 to avoid any reduction or delay to your payment.The Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs offers several payments to farm businesses based on the land that they farm, or actions they take on their land. These payments are called ‘Area-based Schemes’ (ABS). Further information on these schemes is available on the following pages.

    Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)

    More in this topic

    • Summary of Area-based Schemes for 2022
    • Area-based schemes 2022 guidance and forms
    • Basic Payment Scheme 2022: financial ceiling
    • New procedures for Review of Decisions to come into force

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    Most recent publications

    • The Direct Payments to Farmers (Cross-Compliance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

      Published 28 October 2022
    • TE1: Actual inheritance and anticipated inheritance forms 2023

      Published 1 July 2022
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    Most recent news items

    • Still time to get your EFS Wider Tranche 6 application in - Poots

      Published 21 September 2022
    • CAFRE EFS farm walk to take place at Enniskillen Campus

      Published 9 August 2022
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    How to request information from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs including Freedom of Information (FOI), Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) and the use of our Publication Scheme.

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