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Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
We are looking for novel proposals to create at least 100ha of new woodland to be planted by 31 March 2025.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU.
Farmers and land managers can now get up to £11,600 per hectare for the public benefits delivered by woodlands they create – a 45% increase on current amount
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Innovation fund supporting nurseries to increase and diversify domestic tree supply.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting fruit trees item.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
Guidance for community groups wanting to start a food growing project.
Find out how to restock trees on a site where they have been felled due to pests or disease.
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