Schedule 2 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO WHICH PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN SCHEDULE 8, PART II, ITEMS 1 AND 2 RELATE
As regards all grassland which is subject to the agreement, requirements to the effect that–
the farmer shall maintain the grassland and shall not plough, level or reseed it at any time, nor shall he harrow or roll pasture or allotment land during the period from 1st April to 15th July in any given year;
the farmer shall not increase his existing application rates of inorganic fertiliser or artificial organic fertiliser and shall not in any event apply more than 25 kilogrammes of nitrogen, 12.5 kilogrammes of phosphate or 12.5 kilogrammes of potash per hectare of grassland per year, and he shall make only one application of fertiliser a year;
the farmer shall not apply slurry or poultry manure to the grassland;
the farmer shall not apply to the grassland farmyard manure which has not been produced on his own farm without the prior written approval of the Minister, shall not increase his existing application rates in respect of farmyard manure produced on his own farm, and shall not in any event apply more than 12.5 tonnes per hectare per year, and shall make only one application a year;
the farmer shall not apply fungicides and insecticides to the grassland;
the farmer shall not apply to the grassland herbicides except to control bracken, nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broad-leaved dock or ragwort and, if using herbicides for that purpose, shall apply them by weed wiper or by spot treatment, and, for the purposes of controlling bracken, shall use asulam where it cannot be controlled by mechanical means;
the farmer shall not apply to pasture or allotment land lime or slag or any substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil, and he shall not, without the prior written approval of the Minister, apply to meadowland more than 5 tonnes per hectare of lime at intervals more frequent than once every 8 years;
the farmer shall not cut or spray areas of rushes in pastures or allotment land;
the farmer shall not install any new drainage system, or substantially modify any existing drainage system;
the farmer shall not apply fertilisers to allotment land;
the farmer shall not increase his existing stocking rate on allotment land, shall agree a management plan for grazing that land with the Minister and shall implement that plan;
the farmer shall not disturb or remove material forming mineral spoil tips; and
the farmer shall not dispose of dirty water on the grassland other than on areas agreed in writing with the Minister.