An investigation by BBC Countryfile, a UK-based television company, revealed the Agency for Rural Payments' enormous indebtedness in granting green agriculture.

North Northumberland farmer Rod Smith told the BBC Countryfile that he had not been paid for 10 years and that the Rural Payments Agency owed him more than £ 100,000. The farmer also said that now there is an extremely painful process of considering his complaints.

The agency acknowledged its work was not good enough and committed to pay almost all of the grants for 2017 this summer.

The Village Payments Agency has confirmed that farmers will begin to receive interim payments. This will cover the requirements of the basic payment scheme of 2018 and the advance payments of Countryside Stewardship 2018 - the “Care for the Countryside” program.

The chief executive officer of the Agency for Rural Payments said: “We have made a lot of efforts to increase the efficiency of our work on the basic payment scheme. This year, only a small number of farmers will receive interim payments. We are focused on handling the remaining claims and paying the farmers as quickly as possible. ”

In the UK, Interim Payment is an interest-free loan for customers until they are fully paid, providing them with 75% of the current appraised value of their claim. Once the full payment has been processed and made, the amount already issued as an interim payment will be withheld.