- For implementation in 2023. practices Simplified cultivation systems, the farmer received PLN 419.56.
- The subsidy does not cover zero tillage.
To this day, farmers can submit applications for direct payments and thus also declare any selected eco-schemes. Each additional day of delay has financial consequences. Applications can be submitted until July 26, but this is already the sanctions period. This means that each business day of delay will reduce the payment amount by 1%/day.
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The call for applications for direct subsidies in the 2024 campaign is ending!
On-site inspection period
After the application campaign, it is time to select farmers for inspection. During the season, ARiMR is obliged to monitor the requirements not only resulting from the obligations that farmers must meet as part of receiving direct payments, but also those included in the regulations on eco-schemes.
Farmers are selected for inspection systematically (randomly) or through manual referral (cases of suspected violations of regulations, sometimes denunciations). The inspections are carried out by ARiMR inspectors or, more rarely, by authorized representatives of the inspection contractor.
When are eco-scheme inspections?
Most inspections take place in time that allows verification of individual elements based on what was declared in the application. If a farmer has undertaken several eco-schemes, the time to check them is long, because some of them can also be checked in the winter.
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Straw within the ecoscheme. What is inspected on site?
How does this look when practicing simplified growing systems?
In the case of this practice, payment is due to the area of arable land on which the farmer operates a simplified cultivation system.
Simplified cultivation systems should be understood as:
1) Conservation tillage – a method of cultivation without plowing using mulching aimed at protecting the soil against degradation and maintaining its productivity,
2) Strip-till cultivation – which involves loosening a strip of soil along the future rows of the crop, fertilizing and sowing seeds within the loosened strips.
3) The practice does not include no-till.
In short, tillage operations are performed with the exception of plow tillage in the group of post-harvest and pre-sowing tillage in the year in which the application for payment was submitted.
What is subject to inspection?
No-plough cultivation must include all pre-sowing and post-harvest cultivation treatments. Therefore, all procedures related to the preparation of the site should be recorded in the register of agrotechnical procedures.
This should be done on a form developed and made available by ARiMR, which contains the number of the registration plot, the designation of the agricultural plot, the area and type of cultivation, the date and type of agrotechnical treatments performed (growing, mulching, aggregating, disking, strip-till, etc.). It is worth specifying these activities and not avoiding writing down accompanying procedures. Then we will avoid questions during the inspection.
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What is inspected on site?
Each time, the area of simplified or strip cultivation is verified. This means that in the field, the inspector confirms the reported crop and measures the agricultural plot.
If he arrives in the period in which he is able to determine this, he also verifies whether there are any crop residues left in the form of mulch in the field. It determines whether the crop was sown in a zero-till system (this excludes receiving payments) and, for example, checks whether herbicides were applied to the stubble.
After collecting this data, a report is created that contains the results of measurements of agricultural plots along with an indication of the crops found in the field. There are also provisions regarding verified requirements and any identified irregularities, as well as confirming the correctness of the tasks performed by the farmer.
Selected crops
It is worth knowing that selected crops can be reported for this practice, the entire farm does not have to be covered by this system. The farmer also does not have to declare this practice every year. After one season, he may give up no-plow cultivation when he finds that the plow system suits him better, or he may use the plow when he wants to get rid of some important field problem.
In this practice, straw cannot be harvested from the field. The straw should be mulched and constitute an anti-erosion layer.
Due to the fact that simplified cultivation requires leaving mulch, it is not possible to apply for such practices as: Mixing straw with soil, catch crops/undersowing or mixing manure on the same agricultural plot.
