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For example, farmers are currently required to leave part of their holding to fallow land or to use protein crops that add nitrogen to the ground, such as legumes, for which they receive a specific agri-environmental grant, on top of the general one for all crops. All the holdings of over 15 hectares have to earmark at least 5 % of the total to ecological focus areas: fallow, nitrogen-fixing crops, wooded areas and/or agroforestry. Furthermore, in order to diversify the crops, the CAP requires holdings under 30 hectares to plant at least two different crops, with the main crop occupying less than 75 % of the total; and holdings larger than three different crops with the two main ones occupying less than 95 % and the largest of them less than 75 % of the total.
A su vez el grado de complejidad que están alcanzando las distintas administraciones se refleja en las prolijas leyes que promulgan y en la complicada jerga a la que se tienen que enfrentar los agricultores. Sirva de ejemplo el siguiente párrafo en el que se explica cómo se llevará a cabo la denominada técnicamente como “convergencia” de la última reforma de la PAC, que abarca la segunda mitad de la presente década:
