Crofters claim that a senior Scottish National Party Euro-politician’s remarks on the need to do away with ‘business-as-usual’ farming throw into serious doubt some of the Scottish Government's current proposals for the future of Scotland's agriculture.
The remarks, made on Tuesday by SNP’s MEP Alyn Smith who is a member of the European Parliament's Rural Affairs and Agriculture Committee and is also the SNP's agriculture spokesman, have been welcomed by the Scottish Crofting Federation. The SCF say it gives further weight to arguments that many of the recommendations in the Pack Report which are being taken forward by the Scottish Government do not contribute to necessary deep and rapid agricultural change in Scotland towards less-intensive, smaller scale approaches, such as crofting.
