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To promote organic farming

To promote green development and demonstration, innovation, research in the sectors of food, agriculture and fisheries

To support investments in animal welfare

To encourage environmentally friendly extensive cultivation of the areas and to minimize the risks of pollution of the ground water resources

To facilitate the transition and improve the conditions for organic farming;
New Measure (2004): To encourage the environmental aspects by excluding the use of plant protection products and limiting the use of nitrogen fertilizer and livestock manure

To promote sustainable agricultural enterprises and forest holdings through the development and application of new technologies, while also reducing undesirable effects on the surrounding society. Environmentally efficient technologies represent a growth area with considerable employment and export potential. The promotion of and support for knowledge exchange and incentives for using new efficient technologies to overcome environmental problems and initiate new production can help the agricultural, forestry and food sectors to remain competitive.

To promote biogas production.

Agriculture serving as an energy provider has a positive impact on green accounts. The government will ensure the best conditions for the further development of agriculture´s role as an energy provider. With the initiatives presented in Green Growth concerning biogas and combustion of manure by 2020, the Government expects energy usage to have increased from 5% of farm yard manure in 2008 to 50% in 2020.

To promote the development of competitive enterprises within the food sector whilst satisfying environmental considerations

To provide support for farmers on a large number of identified small islands to ensure continued land use management and thus conserve the landscape

To protect the aquatic environment, to protect and improve ecosystem and biotope conditions on agricultural land and to promote organic agricultural production