AfD on agriculture

The AfD wants to sharply reduce the administrative burden on farmers and cut documentation requirements. Obstacles to direct sales should also be removed and farm shops supported so regional food is easier to buy.

Farmers have to fill out many forms. The AfD wants to cut this down a lot. Farmers should be able to sell their goods directly more easily. Farm shops should get support.

All farm policy measures should be reviewed for their effect on incomes and their actual ecological benefit. Fewer records should also be required for tagging and registering animals. The platform sees obstacles to direct sales in trade, tax, building and food law, among others. The state's Chamber of Agriculture should be strengthened for this task. Regional heritage brands should become better known.

The AfD wants to end blanket reductions in fertilizer use and instead determine precisely who is responsible for nitrate inputs. It wants to expand the use of pesticides to an appropriate extent.

In some areas, farmers may only use less fertilizer. The AfD wants to end this general rule. Officials should check exactly who pollutes the water. Farmers should also be allowed to use more products against pests.

The platform criticizes the environment ministry's designation of so-called red zones as lacking transparency and not targeting those responsible. In the party's view, blanket cuts endanger the growing of potatoes, grain and corn. Approval standards for pesticides should be neither weakened nor tightened in impractical ways. As an example of expanded use, the AfD cites fighting aphids.