- Found In
- OECD Papers Vol. 5, no. 5, p. 1-47 1681-2328
- Description
- 47 p.
- Summary
- This paper discusses the manure policy in the Netherlands with emphasis on the N and Paccounting system MINAS. MINAS was introduced by the Netherlands' government in 1998, to step-wise decrease the N and P surpluses at farm level in 5 to 10 years to environmental acceptable levels (e.g. Henkens and Van Keulen, 2001). Individual farms that exceed certain levy-free surpluses for N and P (expressed in kg per ha per year) are charged with a financial levy, so as to encourage farmers to decrease the N and P surpluses. Whilst the use of nutrient balances in agricultural research has a history of at least one century, using nutrient balances with levies on surpluses as an instrument to ecologically transform agriculture had no precedent.
- Subject
- LCCN
- 10.1787/oecd_papers-v5-art18-en
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-001052
- Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Title
Manure Policy and MINAS [electronic resource]: Regulating Nitrogen and Phosphorus Surpluses in Agriculture of the Netherlands / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2005.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Environment
Agriculture and Food
Netherlands
- Found In:
OECD Papers Vol. 5, no. 5, p. 1-47 5:5<1 1681-2328
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/oecd_papers-v5-art18-en doi