Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 March 2010.
Peter Robinson
DUP, Belfast East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to encourage new entrants into agricultural careers.
Jim Fitzpatrick
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Farming and the Environment)
DEFRA supports Fresh Start, an industry-led initiative to encourage and support new entrants into farming, including those involved in family succession, and to help established farmers think about how they can develop their business in the future in the light of CAP reform.
Fresh Start provides business skills training to people starting out in farming, delivered through a network of Fresh Start Academies. Fresh Start is also working on providing a mentoring service for new farmers as well as a matching service linking potential new starters with existing farmers who are retiring or restructuring.
The Fresh Start Initiative only operates within England.
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