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Basic Payment Scheme Launch

Posted by: RPA Editor, Posted on: 19 March 2021 - Categories: Basic Payment Scheme, Online service, Rural Payments service
Landscape of strip field farming near Epworth in the Humberhead Levels

In this blog we’ll provide an overview of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) launch and the changes that are happening in 2021. Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is currently the biggest of the rural payments that provide support to the farming …

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