 the allocation of common agricultural policy payments to Scotland's farmers and crofters needs to be fairer. That's according to members of the Rural Affairs Committee. In a letter to the Scottish Government, the committee called for the establishment of three payment regions to help farmers in the most challenging parts of the country. The committee's convener Rob Gibson explained why now is the time for reform of camp payments. The committee believes that there's got to be as good a spread of the available funds as possible to make sure that the hills and uplands and so on do not miss out and that in fact the fairness has got to be built into the system by the Cabinet Secretary and we're recommending that he does so. They also stress that farming and cropping needs to become greener and that everyone receiving funding should carry out a simple carbon audit. There's a green cow project which has been undertaken by Scottish colleges to do a calculation to see how much nitrate they use and things like that so that they can see what their measure is for a particular year and improve on it for the next. It's not more than a couple of hours extra work but it's the kind of thing that would show that farmers and crofters are actually greening their activities.