encourage studies into varieties requiring lower inputs and producing lower yields.
The dual environmental objectives of the 1992 CAP do create strains: one objective is to remove a proportion of land from productive use, and another is to reduce applications of chemicals to agricultural land in some parts of the EU. Taking land out of productive use may lead farmers to try to maintain or increase yield by farming more intensively on the remaining areas of productive land. However, the intention is to reduce chemical inputs, as farmers' incomes are no longer so closely linked to production.