Crofting plays a vital role in maintaining the population in remote rural areas, it provides a secure base for the development of small businesses and maintains and supports a range of unique habitats.
Crofters may benefit from conventional agricultural and environmental schemes and from EC funded programmes.
The Scottish Government provides specific support to crofting counties worth around to £7 million per annum through the following schemes:
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The Scheme is open to groups of at least 2 crofters within the crofting counties and provides good quality, high health bulls in areas where it is impractical to keep bulls and over winter them and where no alternative hiring facility exists.
Further information about the Scheme can be found on the Crofters Commission Website .
If you wish to participate in the Scheme or require any further information please contact:
Mr John Cowan
Stud Farm Manager
Knocknagael Farm
Essich Road
Inverness
IV2 6AJ
Tel: 01463 231261
Mob: 07767673717
john.cowan@crofterscommission.org.uk
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CCAGS is designed to provide assistance towards improving the infrastructure of crofting and eligible small/medium scale agricultural businesses operating in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
By aiding and developing agricultural production on crofting businesses, the principle objective of CCAGS is to sustain the economic basis and way of life and so help retain population in crofting areas.
For further information please see the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants (CCAGS) section of the Scottish Government website.
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CHGS aims is to improve and maintain the standards of crofter housing with the aim of attracting and retaining people in the more remote areas of the Highlands and Islands.
For further information please see the Croft House Grant Scheme (CHGS) section of the Scottish Government website
In order to remove doubt over the ranking of securities on houses assisted by CHGS the Minister for Environment and Climate Change wrote to the Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers on 18 October 2011.
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