The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has today(TUES) launched an eight week consultation with levy payers, other industry stakeholders and trade associations on its Corporate Plan 2012-15.The consultation runs from 22 November 2011 to 17 January 2012 and includes an AHDB Board recommendation to increase the AHDB levy rate for potatoes in Great Britain. In 2010, AHDB introduced a three year programme of small incremental potato levy increases and this is the final 3% increase to allow growth in potato levy-payer-facing activities. The levy rates for the other five AHDB sectors are recommended to remain unchanged from the existing 2011/12 rates.
The AHDB Purpose is ’to make our industries more competitive and sustainable’. It delivers against this through a series of strategies encompassing research and development and farm-level knowledge transfer/exchange; the provision of essential market information to improve supply chain transparency and business decision making; marketing and trade market programmes to help stimulate demand and to maintain and develop export markets.
The work in the Plan is funded by statutory levies paid by farmers and growers and others in the supply chain. These levy rates must be approved annually by Defra and Devolved Administration ministers.
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