EU-stöd inom fårproduktion på Öland jämfört med Småland/fastlandet

Abstract: The Sheep is the oldest livestock, and has been in Sweden for 4-5000 years. Thanks to that you can obtain skin, as well wool and meat. Therefore it was an important animal. Sheep production has increased, strongly lately due to the pasture support. The purpose of this paper is to find out what kind of different EU-subsidies you can get and to compare the subsidies in Öland and the main land. Sheeps are very good conservationist with grass, bushes and herbs, because of different grazing lands hardness and growth is it important to control the pasturage strain. A good way to regulate this is to have different enclosed pasture to switch between. I have been studying the different EU-subsidies. The new form of subsidies were introduced the first of January 2005 and replaced among other things area based income support and most of the head age support. A subsidy has changed in order to fulfil the demand of customers instead of grants the production. The subsidies don't depend on how much you produce. I have also been looking at the different aid schemes for the environment, amount and the care condition there is. The purpose with the different pasture compensation is to maintain the cultivation landscape. This study contains different examples of farming with sheep production. I have also been calculating on the farms without sheeps. In the result you can see that it is more profitable in spite of the fact that the subsidies to have sheep on Öland when you can make the most of much pastures as the "Alvaret" compared to the main land where the pastures are more limited.