EU farmers are to get more flexibility around fallow land requirements to access public agricultural subsidies, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. Farmers growing crops like peas, fava beans and lentils, and other nitrogen fixing crops on 4% of their arable land will be considered eligible to receive Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding. Payments from the CAP, the European Union’s flagship agricultural subsidy scheme, will also be available to farmers growing crops without pesticides on 4% of their arable land. An initial proposal envisaged a 7%-of-arable-land requirement but th…