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<p>I value the role of county farm smallholdings, and particularly the opportunities
they offer for new entrant farmers. We are considering whether we can use funds to
refresh the county farm model by supporting local authorities to reinvest in their
farms, helping with facilitation funding so that the farms are more of a hub for new
entrants, and working with them to make it easier to move tenants out so that we have
a constant pipe stream of new opportunities for new entrants.</p><p><br> Alongside
that, we are considering whether that can be broadened beyond the traditional county
farm, which has existed for many decades since the war, to include some of the peri-urban
farms, which often have links to the agro-ecology movement and are often smaller community-based
groups. Where local authorities have land that they can make available, we might be
able to support the fostering of those schemes, which can be popular.</p>
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