Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Support for Agriculture Etc Chapter 1 - Welsh Ministers’ power to provide support
66.This Chapter confers power on the Welsh Ministers to provide support for or in connection with agriculture in Wales and ancillary activities that take place in Wales. This power enables the Welsh Ministers to provide support, including by means of a support scheme or schemes (and in establishing any such scheme or schemes the Welsh Ministers will need to comply with the SLM duty).
67.The power to provide support, in practice, provides Welsh Ministers with the mechanism to support farmers in producing food and other goods in a sustainable way that is intended to support the Welsh Government’s environmental and climate commitments and to further support the well-being of citizens as it relates to agriculture in Wales.