Farmers will no longer get help with waste management

Sixteen jobs are to be lost to save more than �1.5m.

Hundreds of public sector posts are set to go over the next five years as the States attempts to slash spending by �20m a year.

The Parks Department is cutting 14 jobs to save nearly �750,000. Unions believe further cuts in other departments will be announced next week.

Slimmed down

Deputy Gerald Voisin said the cuts in the Agriculture Department would be voluntary and would include manual workers and managers.

He said it was a better way of making savings than cutting financial aid to the industry.

But he said farmers would feel an impact.

"The amount of money that is going to be dedicated to composting and general waste management is going to be reduced," he said.

"In the past we have provided a subsidised farm secretarial service and that also is going to be slimmed down and we are going to be seeking to recover the full cost from farmers."

A report in February compared the quality and cost of services like housing and health with places like Guernsey, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man.

It concluded that civil servants were delivering excellent services to islanders, but at a huge cost.