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 BBC Wales's Melanie Doel reports"The money from Tir Gofal will boost the rural economy"  real 28k |
'Green' farming scheme underway
Tir Gofal is targeting ordinary farms across Wales
A farmer from mid Wales is among the first to take up a new scheme to encourage efforts to look after the countryside.
Applications for the Tir Gofal scheme opened in April last year after it had received key support from the European Commission.
Assembly Agriculture Secretary Christine Gwyther is due to attend the signing of the first Tir Gofal agreement at Bedlwyncoch Farm, near Sennybridge.
The 58-hectare beef and sheep farm is farmed by Dyfrig Davies and is typical of the type of business the scheme aims to support.
Under his Tir Gofal agreement, Mr Davies has agreed to plant new areas of deciduous trees, create "buffer zones" next to streams and rivers and restore hedgerows and historic features on his land.
Access will also be provided on the farmland for visitors to the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Mr Davies will receive a �4,000 management payment in the first year and the capital works on the farm over the first five years will cost �20,000.
It is one of 600 such agreements with farmers being brought in this year by the Countryside Council for Wales.
The signing of the agreement with Mr Davies will also be attended by the new chairman of the CCW, John Lloyd Jones.
A new round of Tir Gofal applications will begin next month.
Applications for the Tir Gofal scheme opened in April last year after it had received key support from the European Commission.
Assembly Agriculture Secretary Christine Gwyther is due to attend the signing of the first Tir Gofal agreement at Bedlwyncoch Farm, near Sennybridge.
The 58-hectare beef and sheep farm is farmed by Dyfrig Davies and is typical of the type of business the scheme aims to support.
 Christine Gwyther: Attending Tir Gofal signing |
Access will also be provided on the farmland for visitors to the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Mr Davies will receive a �4,000 management payment in the first year and the capital works on the farm over the first five years will cost �20,000.
It is one of 600 such agreements with farmers being brought in this year by the Countryside Council for Wales.
The signing of the agreement with Mr Davies will also be attended by the new chairman of the CCW, John Lloyd Jones.
A new round of Tir Gofal applications will begin next month.
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