New Zealand has a plan to tax farmers for their livestock's burps and farts -- and it's causing a stink ahead of Saturday's general elections.
The economy is driven by agriculture with around 10 million cattle and 25 million sheep roaming the nation's pastures.
Farmers will be taxed according to farm area, livestock numbers, production and their use of nitrogen fertiliser, in an effort to cut agricultural emissions by between 24 and 47 percent by 2050. "Particularly whichever party - or group of parties - is looking at giving the agricultural industry time to adapt new technologies that aren't even available to us yet."
"Some of the only ways we are looking at reducing our emissions is by de-stocking and not running these animals on our farms.""There's a massive question at the moment of what does the future hold," she added.With livelihoods at stake and uncertainty over how the government will price emissions, opposition parties seem to have firm support in the countryside.
"There is a sweet spot with lower emissions and lower pollution and higher profits for farms," he added.
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