21/07/2014 BBC Wales Today

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, says he'd like to see more economic

He spoke to Wales Today, on the opening day of

But what does that mean for the countryside?

Here's our Environment correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd.

The sunshine drew the crowds but already,

this year's show has more traders and livestock than ever before.

Today had more politicians as well, all stating that they support to

Today had more politicians as well, all stating their support to

strengthen the rural economy, including the Prime Minister.

It is an absolutely vital industry, we have 45,000 people employed

It's good that the Royal Welsh Show here has got more exhibitors,

I think there is some fundamental health in the Welsh rural economy

One of the things that we have done, allowing people to earn ?10,000

before they pay any income tax, I think that is particularly helpful

to some of the smaller farmers, but we need to go on, keeping the

regulation down, making sure the industry works, and

helping in terms of getting people to buy Welsh food, British food.

A lot of farmers are not seeing this growth, they're not seeing how

the economy is improving in the towns and urban areas.

They are saying in many parts of the country, that is just not happening.

We have got to keep the economy growing,

we had to help with specific approval issues like broadband, go

we had to help with specific rural issues like broadband, go

on cutting people's taxes, make sure we keep regulation down on farms.

All of those things we can do, we are doing

With falling lamb and beef prices recently, many farmers will be even

more aware that 15% has been taken away from the Direct Farm Payment

On meat prices, they blame supermarkets selling

cheap imports, rather than promoting British lamb and beef.

It is really annoying that Tesco's, 18 months ago,

and all the other supermarkets, said they would back British farming.

Welsh Lamb has taken a fall in price in the last two or three

weeks, which is acceptable, but you think that is the time to

What are they doing promoting New Zealand lamb?

The ?1 billion Rural Development Plan to promote

jobs and businesses is seen as vital to the future of rural communities.

In the previous development plan, which ended last year,

schemes like Marketing Harness Trotting in Ceredigion received

An injection of cash to promote more jobs

There is a whole list of targets and one of them is employing

somebody, one of them is improving the gross value added, money coming

into the area, so that, to us as clubs, means more people the gate,

We need to get more people in, more tourists if you like, to come into

the area, which is then helping the area, the economics of the area.

The UK Government talks about less regulation

and cutting taxes to help rural areas, it is the Welsh government

that takes most decisions on the environment and agriculture here.

Many details of the RDP are yet to be finalised.

The devil is in the detail of this one, and it is very

important that there are practical plans that enable farmers to make

good use and to evolve and develop a business in a way that is practical

The ?1 billion that is up for grabs is the biggest part

While the show keeps expanding, the hope is that of the rural

While the show keeps expanding, the hope is that other rural

Tributes have been paid to a 19-year-old quad biker, who died

after being injured in a motocross race in Ceredigion yesterday.

He's been named as Dan Roch, and friends have called him

a "rising star" of motorcross racing.

Police are investigating what happened

at the Talsarn race track near Lampeter.

This video was taken at Talsarn by Dan Roch in 2010.

Famous for its steep hill, the track is said to be one

of the best in the UK for solo and quad motocross racing.

But yesterday, club championship here turned to

tragedy when the accident claimed the life of the young competitor.

19-year-old Dan Roch, from Templeton in Pembrokeshire, had been into

Friends and colleagues have described him

Today, tributes were paid on social media

Today, tributes were paid on social media and at the Royal Welsh Show

I have known Dan all his life and I am very close with his family.

Dan had been at the heart of the community,

as a pupil at Templeton Community Primary School and then at others.

Quad racing has been a big part of his life

and he has been racing for a number of years and very competitively.

Those involved with motocross who were at the race yesterday on

Those involved with motocross who were at the race yesterday are

helping police with their enquiries, as they carry out an investigation

A man has been airlifted to hospital after falling and breaking his leg

The man, who's in his 20s, and on holiday from Italy,

slipped while walking behind Sgwd yr Eira waterfall.

The hour-long rescue involved a helicopter

The man was winched to safety and flown to hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.

70 jobs are being created import all that, where one of China's biggest

TV makers is basing its manufacturing headquarters. The

figures come as investment in Wales from abroad is at its highest for 25

years. The Welsh Government is urging Welsh

based organisations to switch their online addresses to use dot cymru

and dot Wales, rather than dot UK. The Wales Federation of

Young Farmers Clubs, Sport Wales and the Arts Council for Wales will

be among the first to change to the new addresses, when they become

available later this year. The Director of BBC Cymru Wales,

Rhodri Talfan Davies, says there are some parts of Welsh

life which the corporation He was speaking

as the BBC's annual report shows that the number of people watching

BBC Wales programmes on BBC One But there's been a decline

in the number of English-language programmes made by the BBC,

about Wales, outside of news and current affairs,

in recent years. There are some areas

of our programming, take comedy, take drama, where there aren't

really enough programmes that I will make the case, alongside a

long line of directors making their cases, saying that if we want a true

national service for Wales, we need to think about how we can strengthen

the supply of programming. To the the Commonwealth Games now -

where Team Wales has been officially Most of the team have arrived

in Glasgow and were greeted by a performance from the National

Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Tomorrow, we'll find out who'll be

Wales' flag bearer - leading the team out

at the Opening Ceremony It is overwhelming, the last few

weeks have gone so fast. The training is going great and to

finally be here and to see this, it's something else. I have been

training years and months and now it is coming to the days, a week left

before I complete, so I am getting excited and optimistic about what I

can do. The very warm day today, is this

weather centre last? If anything, it is going to feel

more McGhee towards the end of the week and the weather will feel

hotter. More fine and dry weather to look forward to, feeling very warm

or hot at times, and some showers to come by the time ago to Thursday.

Tonight, but more cloud across western parts, clearer skies further

inland with mist and fog forming. Overnight temperatures 12-16

Celsius, the winds are light. High pressure sitting across Scandinavia,

blocking this weather system from coming in but it will produce more

cloud the winds are light. High pressure sitting across Scandinavia,

blocking this weather system from coming in but it will produce more

clover western cloudy in the West, thick enough to produce the odd spot

of drizzle in Pembrokeshire but it will become drier as the day goes

on. A bit more cloud with mist and fog for eastern parts of the United

Kingdom, that will burn back as the sunshine gets to work. Temperatures,

16-27 Celsius. Tomorrow, in Wales, it will brighten up as the day goes

on but a bit more cloud compared to today. Still feeling warm, highs of

22-26?C, so if you are heading out. Overnight, some mist and fog at into

Wednesday morning. Another mild night, 14-17, with the winds light

and from a north-easterly direction. On Wednesday, we will

seek another fine day showers coming across southern parts of Wales but

more persistent showers as we go into Thursday and they could be

heavy and thundery at times and more showers to come by the time you get

to Friday. Back to you.

We're back with updates in breakfast from 6:25am.

But for now, thanks for watching - from everyone here on the late team,