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00:00 This morning, the streets are empty.
00:02 Markets are empty and buses full of protesters,
00:05 not a trailer full of people, were abandoned today.
00:08 It's a shame for the work and the way of life.
00:11 That's what's important.
00:13 It's not just the public sector that's affected,
00:16 but everything that affects the public sector.
00:19 People, especially in Llanbwla,
00:21 are looking at how many people are going to Cardiff today.
00:24 They've shown how much support there is for the country.
00:27 In the capital, tractors were testing the obvious tolerance
00:31 there is in local communities to policies of the Welsh Government.
00:35 I think they're taking things from us and leaving them to farm.
00:40 We're girls from a farm too and we want to carry on in the future.
00:45 We've been marked with that and we want to carry on.
00:48 The Government says the plan to farm in Cardiff
00:51 is a positive step towards a new and healthy future.
00:55 But there are additional elements to the plan.
00:58 The need to have 10% of land already cultivated and fed
01:02 and 10% also in need of a better life, before the investments.
01:06 Are you happy with the sustainable farming scheme?
01:09 No!
01:11 Many farmers feel they're being targeted in an unfair way.
01:15 I feel a little bit like the villain.
01:18 We farmers all feel that, I think.
01:21 We want to work with the Government and work together.
01:26 We have to do it to move forward with what we're trying to do.
01:30 But none of us are the problem.
01:33 We don't have to trust everyone.
01:36 Thousands have been riding bikes in Cardiff
01:39 to support the unwavering efforts of the SNP.
01:43 Some of them are also proud to feel that the Welsh Government
01:48 is listening and listening to our local communities.
01:52 Although discussions on the plan to farm in Cardiff
01:55 have been going on for seven years,
01:57 the press conference continues without a break.
02:00 The economic impact assessment commissioned by the Welsh Government
02:04 predicted there could be up to 5,500 jobs lost in our agricultural sector.
02:10 That's almost double what's proposed to be lost by Tata Steel.
02:14 We've seen Labour members, elected politicians,
02:16 out campaigning alongside steel workers.
02:19 But yet again, if you implement changes that would cut
02:22 almost double those number of jobs in rural communities.
02:25 Can you understand rural communities' frustrations at that?
02:28 So that economic analysis was done a while ago
02:31 and it was a very important piece of work to see what the impact would be
02:35 as the consultation that we previously had stood.
02:38 I don't want to see one job loss. I want to make that very clear.
02:41 So it's really important that we learn from that.
02:44 We see what the impact would be if the scheme in its present form went ahead.
02:48 So what do you envisage would be the number of job losses then
02:51 in its current form?
02:52 Well, in its current form, I don't know
02:54 because we haven't done that piece of work yet.
02:56 So is it fair then, you're consulting on a plan
02:58 where you don't know what the impacts might be?
03:00 Well, the important thing is that the final scheme,
03:03 when that comes forward, and that will take a while to come forward,
03:07 there will be new economic analysis alongside that.
03:10 We are making a call for Welsh Government to listen to us.
03:14 The Government is granting their views to people like the Rhine.
03:18 And they accept that changes must be made to the plan to farm rural areas.
03:23 What the Government is saying is that we all need to change.
03:27 It's a new era and farmers need to change too.
03:31 That's not a problem. That's what I don't understand.
03:34 People say that's a problem. That's not a problem.
03:37 Farmers need to change. We are changing.
03:39 But that change must be realistic and fair.
03:42 That's what I'm asking. That's what we're all here for today.
03:46 I don't understand why people are saying that we need to change.
03:49 Of course we need to change. We all need to change how we do things.
03:52 We are doing that, but as I said,
03:54 there must be realistic changes.
03:58 Two weeks from now, Wales will have a new Prime Minister.
04:02 He will raise awareness and raise awareness in the farming community
04:06 in one of its most important areas.
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