Greening workbook for the Basic Payment Scheme in England

2016

Visit our webpage: www.gov.uk/rpa/bps2016

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How to work out if you meet thegreening rules

This workbook is designed to help you work out if you are meet the crop diversification and ecological focus area (EFA) greening rules for the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in England. Use this workbook for your own calculations - you don’t need to send it to the Rural Payments Agency as part of your BPS application.

Filling in this workbook does not prove that you meet the greening rules. You need to fill out a BPS application to show how you are meeting the rules, and RPA will use that information to work out if you are meeting them. You could also be inspected. Read the BPS 2016 scheme rules before you apply: www.gov.uk/rpa/bps2016.

What to fill inFill in: • pages 4 and 5 if you need to check if you are meeting the crop diversification rules. • pages 6 and 7 if you need to check if you are meeting the ecological focus area (EFA) rules.

Your total area of eligible arable land What you need to do to meet the greening rules will depend on how much arable land you have at your disposal. You need to include all the arable land you have on your holding when you work out your total arable area - even if you are not claiming BPS on it.

For BPS, arable land is: • land cultivated for crop production. This includes:

- land used for combinable crops - crops grown as root crops and/or fibre (including hemp) - crops grown for animal feed, such as forage maize and forage rape - field vegetables - cut flowers or bulbs and soft fruit (other than permanent crops)

• fallow land• temporary grassland

Work out your total area of arable land before you start using this workbook. You might have used this workbook in 2015 to check whether you met the crop diversification and EFA requirements. You should still check your land areas before you complete this workbook for 2016 – there might have been changes since last year.

Read the ‘Land’ section of the BPS 2016 scheme rules to make sure you know what counts as ‘eligible land’.

Use built-in checks to help you get your application right and get an instant receipt

Do more than just apply:

• check your entitlements online and transfer them

• view maps and aerial photography

• print maps of individual land parcels

• transfer land parcels online

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Crop diversification Depending on how much eligible arable land you have on your holding, you may need to grow at least 2 or 3 crops, covering certain areas of your land, to meet the crop diversification rules. Read the ‘crop diversification’ section of the BPS 2016 scheme rules: www.gov.uk/rpa/bps2016

Crop diversification totalsUse Part A if you have from 10.00 to 30.00 hectares of eligible arable land and need to grow at least 2 different crops. Use Part B if you have more than 30.00 hectares of eligible arable land and have to grow at least 3 different crops to meet the rules.

Part A: 2 crops If you need to grow at least 2 crops, your main crop cannot cover more than 75% of your arable land. Use the boxes below to work out if you are meeting the rules.

Put the total area of your main crop (in hectares) in the first box, then your total eligible area of arable land (in hectares) in the box below. Divide the first box by the second box, then multiply the answer by 100 to get the percentage of your arable land that your main crop covers.

Total area of main crop (ha)

Divided by total area of arable land (ha)

Part B: 3 crops If you need to grow at least 3 crops, your main crop cannot cover more than 75% of your arable land and your 2 main crops must not cover more than 95%. Use the boxes below to work out if you are meeting the rules. Put the total area of your main crop (in hectares) in the first box, then your total area of arable land (in hectares) in the box below. Divide the first box by the second box, then multiply the answer by 100.

Total area of main crop (ha)

Divided by total area of arable land (ha)

To work out if your 2 main crops cover less than 95% of your total arable land:

• put the total area of your main crop and second largest crop in the first two boxes below (in hectares)

• add the 2 crop sizes together, then divide this figure by the total area of arable land you have (in hectares)

• multiply this answer by 100

Total area of main crop (ha)

Plus total area of second largest crop (ha)

Total size of 2 largest crops (ha)

Divided by total area of arable land (ha)

x 100 = =

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%To meet the rule, the answer should be no more than 75%

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