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Lord Hardy of Wath
asked. Her Majesty's Government:What grants have been offered under the Agriculture Development Scheme. [HL882]
Baroness Hayman
We are pleased that offers of some £2 million in marketing grants have been made under the Agriculture Development Scheme. Around 35 per cent of the money will benefit the pig sector directly and some of the other projects directed at the livestock sector will also help pig producers. Overall, we are assisting a wide range of sectors and regions. The following organisations have been offered grant aid:
| Sector | Lead organisation | Project |
| Pigs | Assured British Meat | National assurance database information and administration system (pigs module) |
| Pigs | Assured British Meat | ABM Assured Britsh Pigs Scheme data merger |
| Pigs | BOCM Pauls Ltd | Maximising pig carcass value |
| Pigs/organic | Eastbrook Farm Organic Meats Ltd | Growing the organic pigmeat market from a UK production base |
| Pigs | Food Trak plc | Traceability in the pig meat supply chain |
| Pigs | JSR Farms Ltd | Integrated pig meat supply initiative |
| Pigs | Ladies In Pigs | A catering college's initiative to secure the future for British pigmeat in catering |
| Pigs | Meat & Livestock Commission | Project 2: improving supply chain communications |
| Pigs | National Pig Association | A risk management initiative for the UK pig industry |
| Pigs | United Pig Marketing | A shared IT and information system for UPM and its supply chain partners |
| Pigs | University of Aberdeen | A training package for the British pig industry using multi-media technology |
| Beef | Glendale Beef Producers | Glendale Beef Producers initiative |
| Beef/dairy | Warwickshire Quality Calves | Improving the value of beef calves from the dairy herd |
| Dairy | National Milk Records plc | Proposal for a south-west dairy information network |
| Dairy/organic | Organic Milk Suppliers Co-operative | Design and initial implementation of a novel technology transfer and quality management system on organic dairy farms |
| Dairy/specialty | Business Link Bradford & District | Feasibility study into potential for a yoghurt production facility for the Asian community |
| Eggs | British Free Range Egg Producers Association | British Free Range Egg Marketing Company Ltd |
| Sheep | British Sheep Dairying Association | Implementation of structural development of the sheep dairy sector |
| Sheep/speciality | Business Link Bradford & District | New routes to new markets—investigation into ways of making better use of sheepmeat products to the benefit of producers |
| Wild boar | The British Wild Boar Association | To improve collaborative marketing activity between primary and secondary producers of British farmed wild boar |
| Sector | Lead organisation | Project |
| Livestock general | Assured British Meat | Multiple retail caterers— food safety assurance module |
| Livestock general | Assured British Meat | Assurance chain—focus farms |
| Livestock general/regional/speciality | Assured British Meat | Assurance and food heritage |
| Livestock general | Farmway Ltd | Marketing co-operatively produced branded pork, beef and lamb through "Farmway" co-operative stores: a feasibility study |
| Livestock general | Harper Adams University College | Building regional enterprise and agricultural competitiveness though IT (Breakthrough-IT) |
| Livestock general | Meadow Valley Livestock Ltd | Improving farmers' efficiency and returns by directing them to market-led, added value marketing schemes |
| Livestock general | South East Primestock Producers (SEPP) Ltd | A plan for regional growth and farmer |
| Livestock general/organic/speciality | Humane Slaughter Association | Mobile slaughter unit 2000 |
| Nursery stock | Horticultural Trades Association | A project to influence structural change in the landscape supply chain to build value in the soft landscape market |
| Nursery stock | Horticultural Trades Association | A project to extend the HTA nursery certification scheme to include the inspection and supply of local provenance |
| Nursery stock | Horticultural Trades Association | A project to develop a greater understanding of the supply chain within the nurserystock sector |
| Onions | British Onion Producers Organisation | Sector analysis of the onion market |
| Potatoes | Hereward Growers | Collaborative marketing initiative |
| Sector | Lead organisation | Project |
| Soft fruit | Advanced Marketing Services Ltd | Soft fruit development for category management |
| Soft fruit | The Berryworld Producers' Organisation Ltd | Development of an intergrated traceability system for the soft fruit industry |
| Tomatoes | Tomato Growers Association | Investigation into the development of an integrated quality management system for the British tomato industry |
| Top fruit | Fruition Group Ltd | Rationalisation: the basis of a full category player |
| Horticulture general | Checkmate International | Benchmarking services for the EUREP GAP framework |
| Horticulture general | Institute of Grocery Distribution | Benchmarking the industry |
| Combinable crops | Samuel Rose Ltd | Promoting vertical intergration through farmer collaboration in agricultural supply chains |
| Combinable crops | United Grain Producers | "The Marlborough Group" (working together to improve farm incomes) |
| Farmers' markets | National Association of Farmers Markets | Together to market |
| Direct selling | Farm Retail Association | Red and green box scheme feasibility study |
| Viticulture | The Magpie Consultancy | Formation of a collaborative marketing company owned by producers and devoted to the marketing development of the wines & vineyards of England |
| Trout | Longford Estate | Co-ordinated approach to trout marketing |
| General | Plunkett Foundation | Increasing competitiveness in the farmer controlled business sector through the use of best practice benchmarking |
| General | Lantra | Increasing the competitiveness of the land based sector |