CAP amendments should benefit all

Land should be released from persons who don’t want to engage in agricultural production, and made available to active farmers who want to produce food.

So says Macra na Feirme in its policy paper on the future shape of CAP.

To critically appraise this point, there doesn’t seem to be any obstacle at present preventing any farmer no longer interested in farming from making the farm available to others, through renting, leasing or share farming.