Teagasc to invest up to €4m to search for alternative fuels

TEAGASC, the agriculture and food development authority, is to get involved in the search for alternative fuels, it confirmed yesterday.

As the hunt for alternative fuels becomes more critical Teagasc is to set invest up to €4 million of its annual budget to determine more efficient methods of rape seed oil production for use as an alternative fuel.

Other critical environmental issues are also under consideration, such as the use of forestry rotation to use up water waste and sludge.