U.S. tweaks farmland conservation deals to fight food crisis – Reuters
- Date: 27-May-2022
- Source: Reuters
- Sector:Agriculture
- Country:Gulf
U.S. tweaks farmland conservation deals to fight food crisis – Reuters
CHICAGO, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. government will let some farmers plant crops on environmentally sensitive land that had been set aside for conservation, in an effort to help mitigate the global food crisis, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Thursday.
The offer is open to farmers in the final year of their contract with the agency's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), USDA said on its website. The program pays farmers to fallow acres under 10- or 15-year contracts. read more
The USDA said it would have to approve farmer applications to voluntarily end their contract early.
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