With HLCA cuts, uplands face bleak and bitter future

08 September 1997

With HLCA cuts, uplands face "bleak and bitter future"

UPLAND communities face a “bleak and bitter future” if Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances (HLCAs) are cut by the removal of aid to beef hill-farmers hit by the BSE crisis, NFU president Sir David Naish has warned. HLCAs are currently under Government review

Launching the unions survey of hill farmers, he painted a sad picture of rural communites facing a slow but certain death as farm incomes fell and farmers children left farming.

Forty-three per cent of hill-farming respondents expected their children to take totally different career paths from themselves.