May 17, 2021 11:52 am
Minister of State Pippa Hackett has announced the commencement of the 2020 balancing payments for the Organic Farming Scheme.
Payments of over €1 million under this scheme will commence issuing to over 1,300 farmers from today (Monday, May 17) with further payments to issue in the coming weeks.
1,530 organic farmers in the scheme
This round of payments is the balancing payment amounting to 15% of the full annual payment due under the scheme; the 85% advance payment was issued in November 2020 to the scheme participants in accordance with EU rules.
At present, there are 1,530 organic farmers participating in the scheme and annual payments under the scheme amount to approximately €9 million.
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May 11, 2021 3:09 pm
The fact that the Organic Farming Scheme has been “substantially undersubscribed” in the latest call for applications “must serve as a wake-up call that more needs to be done to entice farmers to switch to organic methods”.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) organics chair Fergal Byrne has said it is clear that the sector “is being failed at a time when we should be doing everything in our powers to make organic farming a more viable option for greater numbers of farmers”.
317 applications were received in respect of the 2021 Organic Farming Scheme, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine confirmed last week.
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317 applications have been made under the Organic Farming Scheme which closed on April 30, last. File Picture.
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317 farmers have applied for conversion to organic farming under the Organic Farming Scheme, which closed last weekend.
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett, said the high number of applications revealed the importance of the scheme as well as the “strong geographical spread” of entrants.
“If all those who applied are eligible and go ahead and convert, we will see an increase of more than 20% in the number of famers who will farm organically in Ireland supported by the Department’s Organic Farming Scheme.
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