Part of 2. 1. Cwestiynau i’r Prif Weinidog – Senedd Cymru am 1:41 pm ar 14 Mehefin 2016.
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Lywydd.
The First Minister will know that Welsh farming is in crisis at the minute. Farm incomes across the board are down by 25 per cent and, in some sectors, like dairy, they’re down by as much as half. Of course, this is caused, to a great extent, by a collapse in commodity prices, but there are administrative reasons also behind it, in particular the chaos in the payments system and the basic payment scheme. There’s a particular problem for cross-border farmers with land in England as well as in Wales, where hundreds of them have still not been paid, and, indeed, the information they provided a year ago has still not been validated and yet they’re—[Interruption.]