Other greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector will continue to decrease in the period 2020-2030 to 17.8 [16.7-18.0] Mton of CO equivalents (a reduction of 0.4 Mton). In the same period, methane emissions will decrease by around 0.5 Mton of CO equivalents and nitrous oxide emissions will decrease by around 0.2 Mton of CO equivalents. The reduction in methane emissions is mainly due to the assumed decrease in the number of young cows (by a further 16%) and further reduction of the ratio of young cows per milk cow from 0.63 in 2020 to 0.56 by 2030. In addition, the number of pigs will be reduced by 5% as a result of the agreements stipulated in the Coalition Agreement 2017 (concerning scaling back of pig farming). The number of dairy cows will also decrease by 5% in the period up to 2030, but this will not result in a reduction in methane emissions. The reason for this is that milk production per cow will increase by 1.25% in the period up to 2030, as will the associated extra feed intake. Although feed intake will rise at a slower rate than milk production per cow, this will result in a net increase in methane emissions per cow. The practice of manure fermentation (in the form of co-fermentation) slowly increased over the period 2006-2014, after which it stabilised. The current SDE+ subsidy programme focuses solely on energy production (i.e. avoidance of CO emissions), and therefore does not pay any attention to methane emissions stemming from manure storage. In 2017, methane emissions from manure fermentation decreased by 0.13 Mton of CO equivalents. It has been assumed that without additional policies, both manure fermentation and reduction of methane emissions stemming from