Plaid Cymru's Clwyd constituency candidate Llyr Gruffydd said: "Starting with funding certainty, we are committed to protecting the Welsh farming budget and to providing longer-term financial security with a multi-year funding settlement. This will give our farmers greater confidence to get on with what they do best - putting food on our tables."
For too long, rural Wales has been an afterthought for the Westminster parties.
Whether it is the Tories' cuts to farm funding or dodgy trade deals after their botched Brexit, or Labour's tone-deaf Inheritance Tax proposals, the UK parties clearly do not understand or even care about our rural communities.
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Here in Wales, the Labour Welsh Government has shown similar disregard, giving us piecemeal policies, urban-centric legislation, and a lack of vision for the countryside.
Next to no strategic, joined-up thinking about the future of rural Wales.
Rural agenda at the heart of Welsh Government
Plaid Cymru says: enough is enough. It is time for a rural reset — a new era of putting rural policy at the heart of Welsh Government.
Plaid Cymru will back our family farms. Starting with funding certainty, we are committed to protecting the Welsh farming budget and to providing longer-term financial security with a multi-year funding settlement.
This will give our farmers greater confidence to get on with what they do best - putting food on our tables.
We will also commission a review of farming bureaucracy to reduce the red tape that's increasingly weighing our farmers down.
To further support farming communities, Plaid Cymru will protect productive farmland and build a stronger Welsh food system with by significantly ramping up the public procurement of Welsh food.
Food strategy
Our National Food Strategy for Wales will be one that better aligns farming, processing, procurement and public health - with a strong focus on Welsh production for Welsh plates.
Our proposed national economic development agency will be given a clear responsibility for rural economic development.
Growing the rural economy
We want a new Rural Development Strategy with targeted measures to overcome the structural barriers that currently hold back our rural economy.
Prosperity should not be postcode dependent, and under Plaid Cymru rural Wales will get a fairer share of jobs and investment.
There's still work to do on the Sustainable Farming Scheme. We will co-operate closely with farming stakeholders to be flexible and will evolve, change and amend the scheme as it goes ahead.
Similarly, with the nitrate vulnerable zones regulations, Plaid Cymru is committed to a more targeted and proportional approach, moving away from the farming-by-calendar approach as recommended by the recent Bolton Review.
bTB
We will also use all the tools at our disposal to tackle bovine TB (bTB) – including the targeted and science-led controlling of bTB in wildlife.
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As someone who has raised four children on a family farm, I am passionate about supporting the next generation of farmers.
We will work with the Development Bank for Wales to invest in our young people. We will also ensure that our agricultural colleges and those providing tenanted opportunities have a key role to play.
Plaid Cymru or Reform UK?
All the polls show that the Senedd Election is a two-horse race and that Wales faces a clear choice – hope and ambition with Plaid Cymru or chaos and division with Reform UK.
My ambition is that my children have a future living and working in the rural communities that raised them - a future where rural Wales is not left behind but leads the way.
Plaid Cymru is ready to deliver that future. On May 7, let's reset the rural agenda.
Let's rebuild our communities. Let's reclaim our countryside
