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Horticultural Change and the Horticultural Buildings and Orchard Replanting Grant Scheme in England

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  • B W Ilbery

    (Division of Geography, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, England)

  • I R Bowler

    (Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England)

Abstract

The Horticultural Buildings and Orchard Replanting Grant Scheme, introduced in the United Kingdom in 1989, encourages horticultural growers to modernise their glasshouse and/or apple and pear enterprises. In this paper, the Scheme is described and the farm and farmer characteristics of a sample of adopters and nonadopters in England are examined, as well as the reasons for adoption and nonadoption. Adopters are shown to have larger, usually owner-occupied, holdings, more specialised farming systems, and higher net profits than have non-adopters; they have a history of making investments in the business. Considerable resistance towards the Scheme was found among nonadopters who, together with many adopters, feel that the Scheme does not address the main problems facing the horticultural industry in the United Kingdom.

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  • B W Ilbery & I R Bowler, 1995. "Horticultural Change and the Horticultural Buildings and Orchard Replanting Grant Scheme in England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 13(1), pages 67-78, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:13:y:1995:i:1:p:67-78
    DOI: 10.1068/c130067
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