🔹The EU 🇪🇺 has approved controversial plans for the Dutch 🇳🇱 gov't to forcibly buy out livestock farms as part of plans to cut nitrogen emissions. Two schemes (LBV & LBV plus) with a total budget of €1.47 billion euros will be used to compensate farmers for the voluntary closure of their holdings. The schemes are intended targets are about 3,000 small and medium-sized livestock farms.

🔹Only farmers 🚜 that can prove they have been constantly producing over the five years before voluntarily closing down production will be eligible for the schemes. Farmers who decide to close their holdings must guarantee they will not start up livestock 🐄 farming operations elsewhere in the Netherlands or within the EU.

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💠 Over 10,000 Dutch farmers protested in The Hague on March 11th against the nitrogen policy.

💠 Dutch farmers protests end in clashes with police 🚓 & arrests.

💠 The Dutch gov't plans to buy & close down, up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas.

💠 🇳🇱 Farmers Defence Force, representing 8 agro-organisations, (95% of the industry), locked out of the 1st round of negotiations.

💠 Multiple protests previously erupted over the gov't's draconian nitrogen oxides curbing plan.

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