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New supports have been unveiled to allow Fingal farmers to go organic.
Minister of State for Community Development and Charities and Green Party T.D for Fingal, Joe O Brien, has welcomed the announcement by his Green Party Colleague, Senator Pippa Hacket that the Organic Farming Scheme will reopen to new entrants in the first week of March.
The re-opening, subject to EU Commission approval, is expected to result in an increase of up to 30% in the number of farmers farming organically in Ireland this year.
Minister O Brien is urging the many farmers in Fingal to avail of support scheme through which they can apply for financial support as they transition to organic farming practices.
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Cattle and sheep farmers have again been marginalised in the latest call for applications to the organic scheme, according to the ICSA.\David Ruffles
Drystock farmers must not be discriminated against in any future rounds of the Organic Farming Scheme, Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) organics chair Fergal Byrne has said.
Byrne was speaking at a meeting between Minister of State Pippa Hackett an ICSA representatives on Tuesday (9 February).
“Cattle and sheep farmers have again been marginalised in the latest call for applications to the scheme, he said.
“This is very discouraging, and clearly out of step with wider ambitions to vastly increase the proportion of land devoted to organic production across Europe by 2030. ICSA believes that drystock farmers must not be discriminated against in any future rounds of the organics scheme.”
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