Agriculture: Income Mr. Paice To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much and what proportion of total income from farming resulted from (a) single farm payments, (b) agri-environment schemes, (c) diversified activity and (d) receipts from food production in each of the last three years. Jonathan Shaw The answer is given in the table shown as follows. ‘Receipts from food production’ is not available; the value of crop and livestock production has been included. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |£ million|Percentage of TIFF|£ million|Percentage of TIFF|£ million|Percentage of TIFF| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Single farm payment |2,349 |108 |2,354 |102 |2,292 |90 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Agri-environment schemes |259 |12 |346 |15 |410 |16 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Inseparable non-agricultural activities1 |674 |31 |710 |31 |771 |30 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total crop output |4,998 |230 |5,147 |223 |5,791 |228 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total livestock output (meat, milk and eggs) |6,544 |301 |7,246 |315 |7,699 |303 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |TIFF |2,171 |100 |2,303 |100 |2,538 |100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 The diversified activity which is included in TIFF is only that which is considered ‘inseparable’. This includes activities such as ‘tourist accommodation and catering’ and ‘farm retailing’.| | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------