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Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The AfD wants farmers to manage rural land on their own responsibility and rejects restrictions from the EU. It expects falling harvests due to limits on pesticides and fertilizer and sees domestic food supply at risk.
The EU makes many rules for farmers. The AfD does not want to accept these rules. Farmers should decide for themselves how they work. The AfD says there will otherwise soon be too little food from Germany.
The AfD wants to target support at small and mid-sized farms by making area payments shrink as farm size grows. It also wants to cut administrative requirements for small farms and support young farmers. The platform argues that family farms are being pushed out by agricultural corporations and land speculation.
The AfD wants to help small farms. Small farms should get more money per acre than big ones. There should be less paperwork for them. Young people should find it easier to take over a farm.
The AfD rejects the rules proposed by the EU that would ban pesticides in certain areas and reduce fertilizer use. Fertilizing according to crop needs should not be restricted. The platform points to consequences for wine growing and to an endangered fertilizer supply.
The EU wants to ban pesticides in some areas. It also wants less fertilizer on fields. The AfD is against this. Farmers should be allowed to fertilize as much as the plants need.
The AfD wants to quickly privatize the state-owned Kloster Eberbach wineries together with their land. No wind turbines should be allowed within sight of the Rheingau and Bergstraße wine landscapes.
The state of Hesse owns wineries. The AfD wants to sell them quickly. There should be no wind turbines near the vineyards. The AfD says this protects the landscape.
The AfD wants farmers to choose freely how their machinery is powered and wants farm vehicles to stay exempt from vehicle tax. Farms should get priority for electricity during shortages. The platform regards farmers as essential and battery-powered field vehicles as impractical.
Farmers should decide what powers their machines. Tractors should stay free of vehicle tax. If power is short, farms should get electricity first. The state should help pay for backup generators.
The AfD wants to support livestock farms and end any preferential treatment of vegetarian diets. Imported meat should be clearly labeled by husbandry method and origin. It wants to ban insect-based additives in food because it considers health questions unresolved.
The AfD wants to help farmers who keep animals. The state should not favor meat-free food. Meat from abroad should show where it comes from. The AfD wants to ban insects in food.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The CDU wants to set up a separate ministry for agriculture, forestry, and winegrowing to underline the importance of these sectors for society and supply. The main land users' associations are to get the same rights and duties as recognized conservation groups.
The CDU wants to create a new ministry. It will deal with farming, forests, and winegrowing. Farmers' associations should get more rights. They should have as much say as nature protection groups.
The CDU wants to market regional food more strongly and use it more often in public cafeterias, daycare centers, and schools. Processing businesses such as dairies, mills, and slaughterhouses are to be kept in the region.
The CDU wants more food from Hessen. Daycare centers, schools, and cafeterias should use more of it. There will be a campaign for products from Hessen. Dairies, mills, and slaughterhouses should stay nearby.
The CDU wants to implement EU farm funding in Hessen so that the programs involve little bureaucracy and are used by as many farms as possible. Besides general investment support, it plans special funds, for example for livestock, crop protection, and insect protection. It regards conventional and organic farming as equal in value.
Farmers get support money. The CDU wants to make applying easier. There should be extra money for special tasks. For example, for better barns or modern technology. For the CDU, organic farms and other farms are worth the same.
The CDU wants plants from new breeding techniques such as CRISPR/CAS not to be treated legally like genetically modified organisms. It advocates a swift, science-based distinction at EU level.
There are new ways to breed plants. One is called CRISPR/CAS. The CDU says this is not the same as genetic engineering. The EU should set clear rules on this quickly.
The CDU wants more livestock farming in Hessen and plans to fund the modernization of farms to achieve it. It relies on the Borchert plan for restructuring animal husbandry, mandatory husbandry labeling, and secured investments.
The CDU wants more livestock farming in Hessen. Farmers should modernize their barns. They get money for this. Labels on meat should show how the animals lived. Farmers who invest should be able to rely on the rules.
The CDU wants to make it easier to get compensation for damage caused by returning species such as wolves, lynx, beavers and otters, and to reverse the burden of proof. Wolf protection measures for grazing livestock would also be fully funded across Hesse.
Wolves, lynx, beavers and otters live in Hesse again. Sometimes they cause damage. The CDU wants people to get money for this more easily. Farmers should no longer have to prove the damage themselves. The state should pay the full cost of protection against wolves.
The CDU wants to cap the loss of agricultural land at 2.5 hectares per day and agree on a package of measures with farmers. This includes priority for building within existing settlements, an end to compensatory tree planting on farmland, and agri-photovoltaics as the standard.
Farmland is lost every day, for example to buildings. The CDU wants to limit this strongly. The limit should be 2.5 hectares per day. Replacement forests should no longer be planted on fields. Solar panels should be built so that farming can continue below them.
The CDU wants to suspend the set-aside of cropland required under EU farm subsidies. Fallow land is to be opened temporarily for all crops nationwide, and conservation-law restrictions on agricultural production are to be reduced.
The EU requires farmers to leave part of their fields unused. The CDU wants to pause this rule. Farmers should be allowed to plant unused land again for a time. Nature protection rules should restrict farming less.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The FDP wants to keep good agricultural soil from being covered with solar installations on a large scale. It cites food security and wants to change the Hessian regulation on ground-mounted solar plants.
Our food grows on fields. The FDP does not want too many solar plants on good fields. So it wants to change a state rule. The rule should say which land is used first. The FDP also wants research on farming in stacked layers.
The FDP wants to write food security into the state constitution as a state objective and treat it as equal to climate, animal and environmental protection. Farmers should face no further restrictions, and the duty to leave cropland fallow would be suspended permanently.
The FDP wants enough food to be a goal in Hesse's constitution. Farmers should run their farms themselves. They should no longer have to leave fields empty. The FDP wants to review the target for more organic land. Organic farming should grow as customers buy it.
The FDP wants to keep livestock farming in Hesse and enable farms to invest in better animal welfare. To that end, the agricultural investment funding program would be raised substantially.
People want animals in barns to be treated well. That costs farmers money. The FDP wants to give them more funding. They can then build better barns. Meat and milk should keep coming from Hesse.
The FDP wants to review which areas count as nitrate-polluted under the Fertilizer Ordinance and distinguish more by who causes the pollution. It considers modern crop protection products indispensable and relies on digital technology for greater efficiency.
In some areas, farmers may use only a little fertilizer. These are called Red Areas. The FDP wants to check these areas again. Only those who pollute the water should face strict rules. Farmers should have enough products against pests. Drones and sensors should help with fertilizing.
The FDP wants to use modern biotechnological breeding methods such as CRISPR/Cas in crop farming. It rejects blanket bans and calls for modernizing European genetic engineering law.
The FDP wants to allow new ways of breeding plants. One of them is the gene tool CRISPR/Cas. It can change plant genes in a targeted way. The FDP is against general bans. The EU rules on genetic engineering should be updated.
The FDP wants to make farm subsidy programs easier to understand and cut the effort needed to apply. Funding should follow factual goals, not the method of production or the size of the farm.
The FDP wants to make farm funding simpler. A website should explain all programs. Small and large farms should be treated the same. The type of farming should not matter either. Young people should be able to do a voluntary year on a farm.
The FDP wants to reorganize food safety inspections in Hesse. High-risk businesses, wholesalers and central warehouses would be inspected by the Regierungspräsidien (regional state authorities) instead of local governments.
The FDP wants better checks on food. Today local governments do the checks. The FDP says many checks do not happen. So state offices should check the risky businesses. A team of experts should help.
The FDP wants to create an online portal for Hessian agriculture that links public data with farms' own data. It is meant to simplify work processes and make funding applications easy.
The FDP wants a website for farmers in Hesse. There they find data on weather, soil and maps. They can also apply for funding there. This should save them work.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The Greens want organic farming to make up 30 percent of agriculture in Hesse by 2030. At the same time, all farming is to become more sustainable, including through less pesticide use and lower nutrient runoff.
The Greens want more organic farming in Hesse. By 2030 it should reach 30 percent. Other farms should also protect nature more. Farmers should use fewer chemical sprays.
The Greens want to protect diverse farm ownership with an agricultural structure law and support people starting farms. Regional value chains are to be strengthened to counter the loss of farms.
The Greens want to keep small and varied farms. A new law should help with that. People who start a farm should get help and land. State canteens should buy more food from the region.
The Greens want Hesse to remain free of genetically modified crops and of breeding or keeping genetically modified animals. This is meant to include new genetic engineering techniques in cultivation. Products containing GMOs are to be labeled.
The Greens want no genetic engineering on fields in Hesse. This also covers newer gene techniques. There should be no gene-modified farm animals either. Products must say so if they contain such ingredients.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The SPD wants all farmland to be managed more sustainably, guided by the proposals of the Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft (Commission on the Future of Agriculture). Funding programs would be simplified, and support for switching to organic farming would continue. Soil and water would be protected by cutting nitrogen surpluses and pesticide use.
The SPD wants farming that is gentler on nature. Farmers should get funding more easily. Farms that switch to organic keep getting help. There should be less fertilizer and fewer pesticides. That protects soil and water.
The SPD wants to strengthen the family-run farms typical of Hesse and counter the decline in the number of farms. When land is sold or leased, independent farmers would get stronger priority over investors from outside agriculture.
The SPD wants to support family farms. There are fewer and fewer farms. The SPD wants to change that. Farmers should get land more easily than outside investors. New farms should get help.
The SPD wants to preserve and support regional food businesses such as bakeries, butchers, dairies and slaughterhouses. In livestock farming, the proposals of the Kompetenznetzwerk Nutztierhaltung (expert network on livestock farming) would be implemented and compliance checked regularly. Public canteens would buy regional and seasonal food under quality standards.
The SPD wants to strengthen food from the region. Bakers, butchers and country inns should stay. Small dairies and slaughterhouses should get funding. Farm animals should be kept better. This would be checked regularly.