What do the parties in Brandenburg say on agriculture?

The AfD gives self-sufficiency based on regionally produced food priority over other goals of farm policy. It wants to keep farm subsidies as long as imports are not held to the same standards, and to direct support toward farms that actually produce food.

The AfD wants more food to come from the region. Germany should need to import less food. Farmers should keep getting money from the state. The money should go to farms that produce food.

The AfD wants farmers to be able to make a living from their traditional forms of operation. They should get more professional leeway and face fewer regulations and paperwork duties. Regional production and marketing should become a large part of economic development funding.

The AfD wants farmers to be able to live from their work. Farmers should have fewer rules. They should decide more for themselves. The state should give more support to selling products from the region.

The AfD wants to regulate the market for farmland so that farmers from the area get priority when buying. It is critical of land purchases by investors from outside agriculture. It announces a law of its own for this purpose.

The AfD wants local farmers to get first chance at buying farmland. It wants to make a law for this. Investors without a farm should find buying harder.

The AfD wants to end the EU's Common Agricultural Policy in the long term and return responsibility to Germany. In the short term, farmers are to be relieved by Germany not interpreting EU rules more strictly than required.

The AfD wants Germany to decide on farming by itself again. Today the EU makes many of the rules. The AfD says this would mean less red tape. First, a study should check how this could work.

The AfD wants to give farmers better legal protection against unfair practices by large retail and processing companies and to promote direct sales. Regional products are to get priority in stores and in public cafeterias.

The AfD wants to protect farmers from big supermarket chains. Farmers should be able to sell their products directly more easily. Supermarkets should not sell foreign asparagus during the local season. Schools should get more food from the region.

The AfD rejects bans and state directives in food policy. Instead, the origin and ingredients of food should be labeled clearly and understandably so that everyone can decide for themselves what to eat.

The AfD wants no bans on food. Everyone should decide for themselves what to eat. Food should clearly show where it comes from. The ingredients should also be easy to read.

The BSW rejects additional burdens on farmers and wants to keep the tax breaks on agricultural diesel. Bureaucracy and documentation duties should shrink, and farm subsidies should become simpler. At the federal level the party advocates ending Grundsteuer A (the property tax on farm and forest land).

The BSW wants to ease the load on farmers. Diesel for farmers should stay cheaper. Farmers should have fewer forms to fill out. Subsidies should be easier to get. The property tax on farm land should go.

The BSW wants to reduce farmers' dependence on large dairies, large slaughterhouses and food corporations. To that end, regional structures for production, processing and marketing should be built up, backed by long-term funding programs.

The BSW wants farmers to depend less on big corporations. Food should be made and sold in the region. The path from farm to customer should be short. There should be long-term funding for this.

The BSW wants to reform the land market and pass a farm structure law so that farmland goes first to local farmers. State-held BVVG land should be transferred to Brandenburg and leased only to local family farms and cooperatives. The party rejects any further paving-over of farmland.

The BSW wants to secure farmland for farmers from the region. Investors should not make money by trading farmland. There should be a new law for this. Federal land should go to the state of Brandenburg. Farmland should no longer be built on.

The BSW wants to give livestock farms much stronger support through a master plan and reduce their burdens. For wolves, beavers and cormorants, the party calls for active wildlife management with financial compensation for damage and the option to intervene when there is danger.

The BSW wants to help farmers with animals more. There should be a big plan for this. Wolves, beavers and cormorants sometimes cause damage. Farmers should get money for that. When there is danger, action against these animals should be allowed.

The CDU rejects blanket rules and mandated land set-asides in farming and forestry and relies on voluntary measures instead. In the program's view, food and supply security should once again take priority over nature conservation concerns.

Farmers and foresters should decide more freely. The state should not order them to leave fields unused. Local food matters more to the CDU than some nature rules. Farmers should pay less tax.

The CDU wants a competitive farming sector in Brandenburg with investment security and fewer requirements. Livestock farming is to stay at least at today's level, and the party rejects fixed organic food quotas and new nature reserves.

Farmers in Brandenburg should be able to do good business. They should be able to rely on their investments. There should be as many farm animals as today, or more. The CDU does not want a fixed quota for organic food. There should be no new nature reserves.

The SPD wants to preserve Brandenburg's mix of large and small, conventional and organic farms. Farmers are to get reliable conditions and less red tape, and the compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas is to stay.

The SPD wants to keep large and small farms. That goes for organic farms and other farms. Farmers should have less paperwork. A payment for farms in difficult areas should stay.

The SPD wants more livestock to be kept in Brandenburg again because it sees animal farming as fundamental to value creation in rural areas. A focus is to be on grazing animals.

The SPD wants more animals on farms again. It says animal farming brings money and work to the countryside. Animals on pasture matter most to it. It also wants to do more against animal diseases.