How agroforestry will help farms qualify for CAP income support

Agroforestry will help farmers comply with environmental conditionality measures for receiving EU payments, writes Diarmuid Cohalan.

In France, agroforestry has become extremely popular, especially among tillage farmers, who claim that tree-rows in tillage crops improve the uptake of nutrients and provide shelter, resulting in higher crop yields, especially with maize and winter cereals.