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Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Information for prospective growers of low THC cannabis (industrial hemp), for the production of seed and fibre only.
Licensing reform will maximise the economic and environmental potential of the crop.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
The U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Find information and support on how to comply with the biosecure procurement requirement for suppliers of plants and trees.
Rules on buffer strips that you must follow if you have hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
Find out how to prevent Xylella fastidiosa, Ceratocystis platani and Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi entering the UK on plants and trees.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
Legislation title: Guidance on the application of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) for phytosanitary treatment of oak processionary moth (OPM).
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
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