Support for early retirement from farming shall contribute to the following objectives:

• to provide an income for elderly farmers who decide to stop farming,

• to encourage the replacement of such elderly farmers by farmers able to improve, where necessary, the economic viability of the remaining agricultural holdings,

• to reassign agricultural land to non-agricultural uses where it cannot be farmed under satisfactory conditions of economic viability.

Early retirement support may include measures to provide an income for farm workers.