Operational Group: Improving extensive farms of native breeds through the use of agroforestry and pastoral resources

This Task Force seeks to develop a new eligibility coefficient for shrub pastures, increasing the eligible area for future applications from livestock farmers for Common Agricultural Policy funding by defining permanent pastures with established local practices in Galicia. It will contribute to describing the typical vegetation of permanent pastures with established local practices, with shrub and tree components, used by livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, and horses).

Attention will be paid to vegetation mosaics with a dominant or characteristic woody component and therefore at greater risk of being ineligible under the CAP, linking them to more relevant habitats. Information will be provided to indicate the main livestock uses associated with each vegetation type in permanent pastures with established local practices. The approximate location will be determined, as well as an approximate distribution of vegetation types in permanent pastures with established local practices, both shrubby and tree-like, used for livestock farming, for the guidance of inspectors and livestock farmers. The forage value of the plant species present in permanent pastures with established local practices for different livestock will be verified, adapted to Galician conditions.