A Meirionnydd man who has been living and working in New Zealand for over 30 years is to appear on an S4C show.

Welsh agriculture and Wales’ rural communities are facing a period of great change over the next few years.

Soon the United Kingdom is likely to leave the European Union and abandon the Common Agricultural Policy and European subsidies.

The Welsh Government has also said it intends to scrap the current system of direct payments to farmers over the next few years.

In an hour-long special edition of Ffermio on Monday, 25 March on S4C, we follow one of Wales’ most famous farmers Gareth Wyn Jones as he travels to New Zealand, a country that saw subsidies completely disappear over 30 years ago.

He will discover how that radical change affected farms and rural communities there and ask what Wales can learn from the experience of people in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

Gareth meets Ceri Lewis, originally from Meirionnydd, who has been living and working in New Zealand for over three decades and has been at Mount Linton Station for 15 years.

He says that there is huge emphasis on achieving a good environmental footprint and genetic science in farming.

There is also a huge drive to diversify into offering products other than livestock.

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