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Impact of the suite (n = 12) of ‘basic’ measures on national agricultural pollution loads assuming low, average and high current measure implementationa.
| Current implementation | Nitrate |
Phosphorus |
Sediment |
Total cost |
Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | (£m) | (£/ha) | |
| Low | 3.6 | 12.6 | 6.5 | 662 | 76 |
| Average | 2.5 | 11.9 | 5.6 | 451 | 52 |
| High | 1.9 | 10.8 | 4.1 | 265 | 30 |
All pollutant values in the table represent percentage decreases in annual losses at the farm scale relative to loadings associated with BAU.
