The government will be stepping in to help farmers threatened with eviction from privately owned land. In a statement late on Tuesday, the Agriculture Ministry said it will be providing farmers with technical and legal support to alleviate the financial burden of court action. The ministry is also willing to deposit the rent in court on their behalf
The Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights will be assisting farmers who are being faced with eviction from privately leased agricultural land by providing technical and legal support to alleviate the financial burden due to legal actions and court cases. These services will be provided through the Ministry's Agriculture Advisory
The Nationalist Party is vowing to help farmers become owners of the land they till, or help them lease it at affordable rates, if elected to government. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, PN's spokesperson Peter Agius, agriculture spokesperson Edwin Vassallo and electoral candidate Rebecca Cilia said that a PN government would step in to guarantee
The Nationalist Party is proposing setting up a fund that would help farmers purchase private land to use for agricultural purposes, in a bid to address the problem with agricultural leases. The proposal aims to address a problem many farmers have found themselves in as a result of a recent court decision, which found that the Agricultural Leases Act
The Nationalist Party has proposed new schemes in order to tackle the agricultural leases saga which is affecting farmers and landowners alike. In a press conference outside the Pitkalija on Tuesday, the PN said that it had come up with two schemes which would help farmers buy agricultural land which they work or which would help them pay their agricultural
Critics of the European Union often use in their favour the argument that the bloc should not use taxpayers’ money to subsidise farmers, as it does under the Common Agricultural Policy. A more balanced view would be that agriculture is not like any other economic activity. It has strategic importance for most countries, even if the economic fundamentals
Over the years, many jobs have changed in the way they are carried out, generally becoming more efficient. In certain jobs, the tools have changed but the fundamentals have remained the same. Farmers fall into this category. While many of the tasks done manually in the past have been mechanised, farmers cannot work without the land and without the
Malta’s solar farm policy doesn’t permit their construction on agricultural land, Environment Minister Aaron Farrugia clarified this afternoon in an interview with MaltaToday. Solar farms are currently in the spotlight of environmental discussions of Malta, with various permits finding strict opposition from farmers and residents of the surrounding
When Nazzareno and Antonia Pulis were evicted from a Żabbar field they had tilled for 30 years, they also ran out of funds and willpower to continue fighting. They were already looking into selling their farming machinery, until the Għaqda Bdiewa Attivi – which says some three farmers are threatened with removal every week – stepped in to appeal the