About this Dataset

EFS Schemes

The Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) is a voluntary agri-environment scheme that supports farmers and land managers to carry out environmentally beneficial farming practices on agricultural land.

The aims of the scheme are to:

restore, preserve and enhance biodiversity;
improve water management and water quality;
reduce soil erosion and improve soil management;
foster carbon conservation and sequestration in agriculture; and
reduce greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from agriculture.

EFS is made up of three levels - Wider, Higher and Group:

EFS Wider level aims to deliver benefits across the countryside outside environmentally designated sites.
EFS Higher level provides site specific plans for strategically important designated sites and for priority habitats and species.
EFS Group level provides support for co-operative work in specific areas for farmers in EFS Wider or Higher.

This service shows an up-to-date view of the EFS Higher and Wider levels.

Scheme polygons are derived from DAERA’s EFS Field Classification layer (FCAT) and dissolved on the Scheme attribute for land within the Higher or Wider levels. The FCAT is derived from the DAERA Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) each year. Permission was received from the Land and Property Service Derived Data Review Group for release of this data set.

An accompanying EFS Agreement data layer shows point of EFS options in each field. This information is extracted from the current accepted agreements updated on a nightly basis. Note that there are a small number of EFS areas that are not included in this dataset as their options are not map based (they only have the Irish Moiled cattle option).

A full list of EFS options and NPIs can be found in the Guide to EFS on the DAERA agri-environment webpage.
Publisher name: OpenDataNI
Last updated: 2024-09-28T05:17:22Z

Tables

Table 1

@ukgov.efs_schemes.table_1

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2 rows
9 columns

CREATE TABLE table_1 (
  "objectid" BIGINT,
  "shape_area" DOUBLE  -- Shape, Area,
  "shape_length" DOUBLE  -- Shape, Length,
  "id" BIGINT,
  "scheme_level" VARCHAR,
  "business_count" BIGINT,
  "field_count" BIGINT,
  "field_area" DOUBLE,
  "feature_hash" VARCHAR
);