McConalogue welcomes farmers interest in extending GLAS, OFS and BDGP contracts
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD, today welcomed the strong response rate by farmers to an offer of extension in their contracts under the Green Low Carbon Agri-environmental Scheme (GLAS), the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) and the Beef Data Genomics Programme (BDGP). These extensions are to offer scheme participants an additional year in the schemes to the end of 2021.
The uptake as of this morning (Tuesday 22 December) is that:
91% of GLAS I and II participants have responded already and of these, 98% have applied to continue in the scheme for next year